Wasn’t enjoying. Flat characters, nothing happening.

Middle grade set on a border island that's half-US and half-Canada, starring an expat American kid recovering from tuberculosis and a Canadian girl who's obsessed with Prohibition-era gangsters and solving the death (murder?) of her last dog. She also has a new dog, but that one doesn't really interest her.

Despite all of these elements, the story crawls. I found the characters irritating and the pace mind-numbing.