Super Mystery #2: Baby-sitters Beware

[aceattorneysho]

Okay.  So.  You know how sometimes something is creepy but ALSO stupid?  Like, it's really messed up but you're also rolling your eyes?  No?  Well you're about to know about it if this book fell out of your memory.  This book has it all- mystery, stalking, unresolved plot lines, dumping on Jessi, Karen, and potential murder.

So, let's dip our toes

Comments

[imamaryanne]

I never read any of the mysteries past the first two, so when I read these snarks I'm always shocked that these books are way crazier in terms of WTF-ness than even the regular series. That said, I'm kind of legitimately creeped out by this one. And for the love of christ, why won't they tell their parents??

[aceattorneysho]

Because they are SO DUMB. SO SO SO DUMB.

(PS- I found this comm by read your book review blog at work and cracking the hell up every afternoon)

[imamaryanne]

I'm flattered! I've sucked at blogging as of late, but I hope to do better this fall when my older kid starts kindergarten.

[aceattorneysho]

I also realize I left the suffix off of reading... I'm dumb too!

[kakeochi_umai]

OMG this book!

MA has a social studies paper and date with Logan, and Logan has a football banquet and that date.
Because it's not like a couple can do coupley things at a ski mansion or anything. (Hell, wouldn't a normal teenage boy relish the opportunity to see his girlfriend's nipples get perky?)

The neighbor is a Mr. Seger who isn't very social so Mrs. R doesn't know him very well. So since this is a BSC mystery he's automatically a super suspect and can't be trusted. So only social people deserve sympathy for getting burgled, while not-very-social people get fingered as potential culprits? I love the messages in this book, I really do. I bet Mr Seger watches heaps of TV AND IS HAPPY. Also, his name makes me think of seders thanks to Rugrats

[aceattorneysho]

HAH. Mal would so sing some JPop.

And this was an era where laptops had black & white screens and had to be modded to connect to the internet. Color ones with modems were like... something only Watson could buy. Poor Janine. She'd probably go out more if she had a real laptop and some wifi.

[sloth_in_a_box]

(Hell, wouldn't a normal teenage boy relish the opportunity to see his girlfriend's nipples get perky?)

I just snorted coffee up my nose. xD

[sgrfrostedflake]

Was Logan even invited to Shadow Lake?

[defined]

I love that you used "character trait" as a verb, lol.

It's ridiculous how they always suspect someone just because they don't know them?

[aceattorneysho]

Oh don't worry. The suspicious get worse!

[miri_me]

Wait - a car taking evasive action to avoid squishing her is a clue to a threatening stalky stalker who throws rocks through windows and sets fire outside people's houses (and given that smoke kills more people than flames, even if it was just to scare them, that's *kinda* potential manslaughter in the works), etc., and she thinks that this is related..?

Or... Oh, I get it: all small business owners are evil fat cats plotting our death and destruction and doom! Down with the man! The man is what's wrong with society! They're all in on it, and trying to put the BSC out of business because they've got the market cornered and aren't BA members..!

Yes?

Or... Oh - wait... My husband's a small business owner. He provides a welcome service to people. He's about to take a sideways step and expand that. While the local radio interviewy man asked him if it was a Communist endeavour, nobody's accused him of being an evil corporate fat cat...

[aceattorneysho]

Wow... that radio guy must have drank the Kool Aid.

It's more that their only clues are the Small Business Association stickers so they can figure it out that way... but they do sort of assume the people with them are jackasses. Which, isn't Stoneybrook just ALL small businesses except for McD's and maybe Pizza Express?

[miri_me]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00qgpbt/Phil_Gayle_12_04_2012/
The segment on my huband is 1:53.26 in - and it was the first question he asked; way to help my husband relax or what?

Damn Kristy and her attempts to control the media with her Kool Aid! :-o

It's a ridiculous leap - and the fact that presumably the entire plot isn't a red herring and they solve the mystery via it irks me somewhat..!

[julietvalcouer]

I know, the Small Business Association pointed out the BSC as operating as a corporation without a license and providing non-background-checked child care.

[hurricanelaura]

Back in that time frame, there were still ways for the phone company to trace harassing phone calls. I don't get why they didn't just do that?

And the fact that Mary Anne has been creeped on not once, but TWICE, and that last one INVOLVING HER PET, yet she still won't tell her parents? No. Just no. If someone taped a threatening note to Happy I'd alert every authority my taxes pay for. And dig a moat around my house. And stock up on ammo.

[aceattorneysho]

I know... no parents... let's not involve them. The only parents in this book at the Brewers and Mrs. Kishi anyway!

[helenesylvie]

I can buy a couple of the girls (Kristy, Abby) keeping the situation on the down-low, but (a.) Fraidy Cat Mary Anne? No way. And (b.) at least two of the incidents, the smoking trashcans and the rock through the window, have been reported to the authorities. I'd ask how they think their parents are clueless, but, yeah, this IS Stoneybrook.