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Quinnie Boyd's family runs beloved Gusty's Café in seaside Maiden Rock, Maine, but there's a fancy new restaurant in town threatening their business. Coincidentally, that's when somebody starts trying to sabotage Gusty's. Tension in Quinnie's diverse group of middle-school friends rings true as do her family's financial worries in the third small-town mystery starring Miss Boyd (The Maypop Kidnapping; Vampires on the Run).