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Amanda Pepper #4
Ballantine Books
February 2007
On Sale: January 30, 2007
Featuring: Amanda Pepper
272 pages ISBN: 034548021X EAN: 9780345480217 Hardcover
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Barring the usual teenage pranks, all seems peaceful at
Philly Prep, the private school in Philadelphia where
Amanda Pepper teaches English. No doubt the money that
appears to be missing from funds collected to aid victims
of a catastrophic hurricane Down South will turn up.
Probably the rumor that some of Amanda’s students have
discovered the thrills of gambling is totally
unfounded.
In any case, Amanda has other things to
think about. Her husband, private investigator C. K.
MacKenzie, is struggling to help his Louisiana kinfolk
reconstruct their post-hurricane lives. Her friend Sasha’s
stepmother has just committed suicide–although, according
to Sasha, Phoebe Ennis would never have killed herself,
especially not while having a drink and wearing a red silk
blouse and red sandals with four-inch heels.
Amanda
isn’t persuaded but reluctantly agrees to help investigate
the woman’s demise, though the evidence for foul play is
slim. True, the middle-aged compulsive collector of
knickknacks wasn’t universally loved. Phoebe’s own son
hated her and she bored her friends to death with hints of
her “royal” lineage. And with four marriages behind her,
she was already preparing to announce her renewed
availability on the Net. But when another woman is found
dead in Phoebe’s house, it becomes clear that something is
indeed murderously amiss, and much closer to home than
Amanda or anyone else could have imagined.
All’s
Well That Ends is the final novel in Gillian Roberts’s
acclaimed Amanda Pepper series. It’s also the best,
irresistibly intelligent, and richly entertaining.
Amanda’s farewell adventure brings the genius of “the
Dorothy Parker of mystery writers” (Nancy Pickard) into
full flower, and the bloom is sweet and a wonder to behold.
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