This is a fun and exciting book! It makes you want keep reading and never take your eyes off the book! A very good mystery that sometimes wants you to jump a little your seat. Very good detail and and i really enjoyed reading this. ( )

This is a bad book! ( )

An interesting mystery, but there was something that just bugged me about it. The fact that she was a chronic liar and deliberately sidetracked a police investigation is one of the examples that grated on my nerves. In the end, I did not get the feeling that she truly understood how bad her choices were. I am not into soccer and at first, the immense about dialogue about this favorite game was a bit boring for me.
It was a quick read, and I did enjoy it though. ( )

Down the Rabbit Hole is the first novel I've read that is clearly in the 'mystery' genre. I loved it. In fact, I was so interested in the characters and places of Echo Falls that I would have kept reading if the murder hadn't been committed for another 200 pages.

Ingrid is an athletic, skeptical thirteen year old and an avid Sherlock Holmes fan. She lives with her Father, Mother and brother Ty. They all have interesting problems of their own, but none as big as Ingrid's after she is invited into the town crazy lady's house to use the phone. The lady is murdered just as Ingrid runs out the door to hail the taxi she called. Ingrid finds out about the murder in the news the next day. Then she realizes that she heard footsteps upstairs in Cracked up Katie's house just before she ran out and that Katie had an unidentifiable opn-mouthed expression just before she went upstairs. Ingrid also realizes later that she has left her red Puma soccer cleats at the murdered Katie's house. So now she could be a suspect!
Ingrid leads a nerve-wracking triple life as potential suspect, sleuth, and schoolgirl.
Other complications include the following: her budding romance with Joey the local police chief's son; her Dad and Mom's collusion with the local robber baron aristocrat to try and grab several acres of Grandad's land against his will; she is viewed as a cheat by her math teacher; her brother's football mishaps; and crucially, her role in the local theater company's production of Alice in Wonderland.

Ingrid is an astoundingly daring, brilliant slueth. What makes her a perfect YA character is the fact that most of the adults in her life have little idea of anything she is going through. Most of the time it's better that they don't, they'd just mess things up.
I love the way the author, Peter Abrahams, drops subtle hints to future unraveling in Ingrid's household and life to which she and the other characters are oblivious. For example, there's the discrepancies in her father's working late stories. The secrets and perhaps unsavory truths under the thin veneer of Ingrid's family's life are intriguing as are the lives and histories of the apparently sleepy town of Echo Falls. It all makes me eager to read the other Echo Falls mysteries.
This novel would be accessible to MS'ers and I think HS'ers would get more out of the sub-plots of the adult world of Echo Falls. ( )

These are really fun books!The whole series is really good! ( )