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		Not a Trace Norah McClintock Markham, Ont.: Scholastic Canada, 2005. 236 p. (A Chloe and Levesque Mystery) ISBN 0439957605 Ages 10 to 12
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Sixteen-year old Chloe has the bad luck of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The Aboriginal community, led by David Mitchell, is protesting the building of a golf course on sacred land. Mitchell and the band members end up in altercations with the site developers, Trevor Blake and Bryce Fuller, which indirectly causes Chloe to be injured. Tension climbs when the band barricades the road and the Ontario Provincial Police take over the situation. Chloe's stepfather, Police Chief Louis Levesque, tries to diffuse the situation by reminding the Staff Sergeant in charge to remember what happened at Ipperwash.

Then Chloe finds Blake's body. All the evidence points to Mitchell as the murderer, but Chloe has doubts; in one of her conversations with Mitchell, he had challenged her by asking "What do you know about me?" But, David Mitchell had also claimed that he would use any means necessary to defend his people's rights. Is he guilty or is he a convenient scapegoat? By the time Chloe discovers the truth, she is in terrible danger.

–LS