Seven Mary Three

Six-fifteen in the morning. Fog on the creek. Ollie Kerr has seven papers left on his Ridge Road route, and Mary Alder is lying at the edge of the water below the footbridge. She babysat him last summer. She let him stay up for Johnny Carson. Her tape recorder hangs from its strap, and the little door where the cassette goes is open. Empty. Then a stranger from out of town hands Ollie a card. He is not FBI, whatever the town thinks. "Keep your eyes open, paperboy." Mary Alder was the third Mary. Four to go. Seven Mary 3 is a top-down RPG murder mystery about the kids of a small town who notice what the grown-ups have agreed not to see. Deliver the Gazette. Get pie and coffee at the Bluebird Diner. Find out why the church bell has stopped ringing, why Mom keeps humming at the kitchen sink without noticing, and why the lights in the trees keep moving closer.