The Silver Box is the last installment of The Enchantment Lake Mystery Series. This continuation of the story contains the same characters as the other books, but follows a much more personal search for answers. Francie is searching for answers as to why her mother abandoned her at such a young age. Throughout the journey with flashbacks of her past, Francie is obsessed with a mysterious silver box and its potential contents.

Francie continues to get herself and others into precarious situations. However, in this book she comes across more consequences to her choices than in the previous books. More details are unraveled and the reader gets to know the characters on deeper levels. That being said, there are still twists and turns all along the way up to the end of the book.

As with the other books in the series, this is for mystery lovers and young sleuths. However, this is also more of a coming of age and self-discovery book.

Review of an Advanced Reading Copy

This book was sent to Compass Book Ratings for review by University of Minnesota Press

Content Analysis:

Profanity/Language:  2 variations of religious exclamations; 1 mild obscenity.

Violence/Gore:  Sound of shot gun; reference to falling through the ice; reference to someone faking their own deaths; reference to being trapped underground; reference to almost being killed via butcher knife; report of death via car accident; reference to real, serious danger; reference to thinking what could happen; ransacked house; threat of shaking someone until their teeth come out their back end; dead animals; dead body in pool of blood with stone knife nearby; threat of someone in building; clonked on the head; threat of someone; death via poisoned plant; report of people knocked out or murdered; reference to almost dying; reference to trying to kill someone; dangerous environment with rattlesnakes, scorpions, and prickle plants; dead porcupine; poisoned water via toxic mine waste destroying animal life and water; verbal threat; 270 people died in mining accident; punch on each arm; potential threat of knives, ice picks, spears, hooks; dead fish; tattoos look like face run over by fat tire bikes; threat of filet knife; hole in ice referenced as a disposal for witnesses; a few references to knife in gut twisted; reference to an accident that sent some one to a nursing home; reference to showing restraint in not killing someone; thought of running and stabbing someone; thought of being able to mortally wound someone with a corkscrew; ski pole used to hit someone in the head and shins; kick to the groin; reference to leading man to death via snowmobile falling through the ice; reference to bite from human; worms and birds dead.

Sex/Nudity:  Reference to strip tease; questioning if someone was having an affair.

Mature Subject Matter:

Parental abandonment; Murder; Death.

Alcohol / Drug Use:

Reference to not running a drug ring; individual drugged.