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Evan Munday

Author of The Dead Kid Detective Agency

6 Works 87 Members 5 Reviews 1 Favorited

Works by Evan Munday

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Gender
male
Places of residence
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupations
illustrator
publicist

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This is the kind of mystery I would have wanted to read when I was young. It has ghosts, five of them to be exact, and plenty of danger. Nothing is watered down for kids, which is good because kids know just how dangerous the world really is.

Some things that made this book stand out for me were: October's father's clinical depression, and October's accurate knowledge of it; the honest treatment of racism even in our schools, and how racist micro-aggressions can be just as damaging as full-on, virulent racism.

I liked how the 1914 mystery connected to the modern-day mystery and how October and her friends worked toward solving both of them.

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tldegray | Sep 21, 2018 |
When outcast October Schwartz moves to Sticksville, she teams up with five dead teenagers to solve the mystery of a teacher's murder
 
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lkmuir | 3 other reviews | Dec 2, 2015 |
The first in a series, this is the story of a quirky 13 year old who is smart enough to be in high school already. Her fascination with cemeteries leads her to secretly become friends with 5 dead kids from the past who are able to help her solve the mystery of who killed her favorite teacher. Aided also by two live friends from school, she has to circumvent her protective and depressed father who has never recovered from the disappearance of her mother.
 
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sleahey | 3 other reviews | Jul 2, 2012 |
Although The Dead Kid Detective Agency does not transcend the genre, it is an enjoyably sardonic adventure with an appealing lead and a surprising trek into a violent chapter in Canadian history. October (wonderful name) is a primo heroine, resourceful, slightly demented, and unafraid of ghosts, murderers, or, worse than both, stuck-up teenage girls (is anything more terrifying than a fifteen-year-old girl with a sense of entitlement?). Her home life is remarkably unvarnished; I can't recall any similar books where a parent is clinically depressed and another has simply run off in the night. It's the realism of these details which help ground the more fantastical elements, and if the plot occasionally careens off the rails, Munday's dry sarcasm and weird asides keep the narrative hopping.

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Rating
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