Closed for the Season by Mary Downing Hahn


   3.5 Stars - Fast paced mystery

     Logan is shocked to learn about the murder of Mrs. Donaldson, the older lady who previously owned the home he and his family just bought.  Though it was creepy that someone had been killed in his home, Logan's family assured him that it was in the past - a random murder/robbery that went wrong. 


     Logan's new neighbor Arthur thought otherwise.  After researching the cold case, both boys are convinced that Mrs. Donaldson was targeted.  She had been accused of embezzling money from Magic Forest - the town's closed amusement park.  Many people felt like the real reason the old lady was murdered was because she simply knew too much - knew who really had stolen the money - and the killer found a way to keep her permanently quiet.




     Logan and Arthur decide to investigate further.  After finding a note written by Mrs. Donaldson left in Logan's attic, Arthur and Logan are determined find the money Mrs. Donaldson had hidden so many years ago.  What seems exciting and fun quickly becomes very serious - the closer they get to finding out the truth, the closer the killer follows behind them…patiently waiting on the chance to silence the boys forever  - just as he did many years ago to Mrs. Donaldson.

22 comments:

  1. closed for the season was a very good book and is very interesting,but a littlebit of suspense. It kept my attention ,because I was trying to figure out whowas the one who killed her. at the end was my favorite ,because violet's son was treatning the suspects that he would kill them.Thats what I thought about it.

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  2. I would have to say that reading Closed for the season was on of my favorite suspense stories it kept me thinking,one of my favorite parts of the story was when it was a battle between silas, violet, author ,logan,mr disilvio, bear ,danny and nina searching and battling for the briefcase hidden with the money from the past years of the Magic forest theme park.That sums up my reveiw of the story.

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  3. closed for the season was very good but i was a little suspicious in the beginning that arthur did it but either way good book all in all

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  4. I would say that it was one of my favorite books I have ever read. I would put it on my top five favorite books. My favorite part is when the boys go to the amusment park and follow the trail or the little dolls to find the money. It is just one of the greatest books I ever read. Read it some tinme pleasse

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  5. Closed for the Season was a suspenseful book that brought me to reading it in less than a day. Pretty short, but packed full of the flavorful mysteries and clues that makes a book a book. I loved the having the biased point of view Logan gives the reader, as it gives you an idea of how the others think of people. The beginning was pretty....interesting and the middle-end just had my nose in the book. I'd recommend it to anyone willing to read an amusing mystery in their spare time and it's a wonderful story of how a murdered woman's daughter wants to find the money her mom was framed for. Logan and Arthur were a great team and Nina was more of a lying cop in the way I saw it. Bear was the niche in the story, since he knew where the case of money was. In the end, Logan's mom had lost her friend since her friend's husband was the thief. What a great story!

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  6. Closed for the Season is a good book especiely when it shows no matter how many friends he still sticks up for aurthure and dont even care what other pepole think of him. but his mom and others are just determend to break up there friend ship. as syles and nina try to get them to stop trying too find out who the killer was. but when logan and aurther find the money there cought right then and there.

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  7. wasnt really my type of book.....it didnt grab me at the start.....thats what i look for in a good book. begginings always matter.

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  8. This book is so good.It was the best book i read so far.It was about a kid who moves in a burrder house and he meets a new friend.They try to find out who the murder is but the boy who moves in the murder house can't see his new friend know more.But at the end of the story they find out who the murder is and he was it was either Danny's dad or the parks owner.But it will be a mystery for them to find out.The good thing is that they will be in jail a long long time.

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  9. closed for the seson was an awsome book.iloved it so much.i usaly dont like books like this but i got hooked.

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  10. Closed for the season is a book about two boys,Logan and Arthur who try to figure out who killed Mrs. Donaldson the old lady who used to live in Logan's house. Closed for the season is a very suspenseful book making you ask many questions.

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  11. closed for the season is a book about two boys that try to figure out who killed Mrs. Donaldson. they were shocked to figure outr who the killer was. this book is very good it kept me thinking the whole time.

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  12. This was a great book. I like how it was a mystery and how the kids ended up finding embezzled money. I especiallly liked this book because i love mysteries.

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  13. this was a really good book but it was not one of my top 5 fovorite book it was about 2 boys who are trying to find out who killed yhis old lady and she use to live in logans house. They was really shocked to find out who killed her. But the book is full of quesdtions and it is a really good book so read it

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  14. I really liked this book! It is really just a mixture of mystery and suspense. Nina is my favorite charicter sometimes because she is a really sneeky girl. I would reccomend this book to anyone is interested in mystery or just wants to find a good book to read.

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  15. Closed for the Season is mysterious book about how two boys from a little town try to solve a big mystery. They work together to try to find out who killed Mrs. Donaldson. Mrs. Donaldson was the owner of the house that lived there before Logan did. Author personally knew Mrs. Donaldson and who they thought killed her. This book is a great book to read and a great mystery book in general. I loved this book and just about anybody should read it!

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  16. It seemed very serious I felt as if I was in the book right beside the characters through the every chapter. When they went to the magic forest for the first time. I thought that they they would see who killer. But they did not I was very shocked at the end and who it was.

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  17. Closed for the Season It seemed very serious I felt as if I was in the book right beside the characters through the every chapter. When they went to the magic forest for the first time. I thought that they they would see who killer. But they did not I was very shocked at the end and who it was.

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  18. Closed for the season was not a book I personaly enjoyed reading.Arthur and Logan got on my nerves and it was kinda predictable. It was slow and soooo Clich`e.Its about the new kid in town,Logan and his quirky neighboor Arthur dicovering the secrets to two of the towns biggest mysteries:Who killed the owner of the house and were had the embezzled money gone?

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  19. closed for the season is a book that i think pepole should read but the main thing i love aboute closed for the season is when there after a murder that happend in logan house aand when they sneek into the magic fforest and catch the robbers that had stole the money long ago

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  20. closed for the season is a book aboute two kids named aurthuer and logan who try to solve a robbery and murder that happend in logans house long ago so they use there hints and sneek into the magig forest and solve it

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  21. My teacher just finished "How they crooked", and it is basically about all the ways famous people from a long time ago died. It tells you how people like King Tut,Christopher Columbus, Albert Einstein, Edgar Allan Poe ect. died!

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  22. Closed for the season is a really good book. I like the book because it is interesting and it has a little bit of suspense. I like how they started the beginning of the book. It was kinda strange that they bought a house where a woman got murdered and robbed of everything she had. If i was in that position i would just move out of the house. In the end i really like this book.

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