Marion isn’t crazy. She can talk to birds and see the future, but she isn’t crazy.
Fourteen-year-old Marion Morrissey has an overactive imagination. That’s why when she sees the body of a dead woman reflected in her bedroom mirror, no one thinks much about it. It’s just a trick of the light, until that same woman washes ashore after a hurricane, and things get real…and real weird.
First, Marion finds a ring on the waterfront.
Second, she tries it on – and she can talk to birds.
The police say the woman on the shore took her own life, but the birds? The birds say she was murdered.
Now Marion must solve the murder to prove her sanity, because either she can talk to birds and the woman was murdered, or she’s crazy.
And Marion isn’t crazy.
A whirlwind mystery of whimsy and wit, Newfangled Madness is about standing for truth, even if it kills you.
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