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Spending the summer unwillingly on the ranch in Texas where her elderly great-aunt and -uncle live, Julie begins to investigate a series of thefts and mysterious deaths there. The book offers an Internet-savvy protagonist and a fair share of red herrings, but readers may be disappointed that the scene of entrapment promised in the title falls flat.