City of Villains

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Downtown Teen, 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Teen Fiction / Laure, Estelle	4-week checkout	Due 05-22-2024

Mary, a troubled teenage detective, must solve a missing persons case as she discovers the reimagined origins of infamous Disney Villains.
High school senior by day, intern at the Monarch City police department by night, Mary Elizabeth Heart watches with envy from behind a desk as detectives come and go, trying to contain the city's growing crime rate. The city's wealthy elite plan to gentrify the decaying neighborhood called the Scar, once upon a time the epicenter of all things magic. When the daughter of a powerful businessmen goes missing, Mary Elizabeth is put on the case. But as the missing person's reports multiply, she is led down the rabbit hole of a city in turmoil. There she finds a girl with horns, a boyfriend with secrets, and what seems to be a sea monster lurking in a poison lake. She becomes caught in the fight between those who once had magic, and those who will do anything to bring it back. -- adapted from jacket

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Creative Read submitted by elsbetherin on June 24, 2022, 8:34am I was very impressed with how the author wove in disney themes and story lines into this book. There were lots of twists and turns that made this a very exciting page turner!