The Midnight Dress

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Rose, nearly sixteen, is used to traveling around with her alcoholic father but connects with the people of a small, coastal Australian town, especially classmate Pearl and reclusive Edie, who teaches her to sew a magical dress for the Harvest Festival while a mystery unfolds around them.

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Atmospheric murder mystery submitted by LibraryMaven on August 25, 2014, 9:24am This is one of those rare murder mysteries in which knowing how it ends (and in fact, being given bits and pieces of the end throughout the novel) does nothing to dispel the creepy factor or the mystery. I enjoyed the slow burn of the novel and getting to know the main character, Rose, as she allows herself to connect to other people for the first time in a long time. Foxlee switches between multiple perspectives to great effect and the reader is left wondering at end, even after all the loose ends are tied up. Does Rose cut herself off from people again after tragedy strikes? What happens to reclusive, dressmaking Edie? I suspect that these characters, and this mystery, will stay in my mind for a long time to come.