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Amanda Pepper Mystery
Ballantine
February 2006
Featuring: Amanda Pepper
256 pages ISBN: 0345480198 Hardcover
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Mystery Amateur Sleuth | Mystery Woman Sleuth
No matter the season, the Philadelphia private school where
Amanda Pepper teaches English is never a center of
tranquility. But with Halloween and the annual Mischief
Night party only days away, the hope is that nothing more
than old-fashioned vandalism and pranks will take place. No such luck. Trouble erupts long before the witching hour,
as the school is plagued by a series of mishaps ranging
from the trivial to the potentially deadly–and most of
which seem to center on a group of popular seniors. A fire alarm rings during a test; all the orange and black
paint is stolen from the art room; the mustard packets are
taken from the cafeteria. Perhaps more serious: chemicals
and equipment disappear from the science lab, as does one
of Amanda’s exams and her attendance book. And the dapper
new science instructor, Juan Reyes, receives a threatening
message recalling that a teacher was once flayed to death
by his students. As Amanda juggles teaching, moonlighting as a private
investigator with her husband, C. K. Mackenzie, and coping
with C.K.’s visiting sixteen-year-old high school-dropout
nephew, she tries to find out what, or who, is behind the
ominous events. Before she can unmask the tricksters, the turmoil in the
school increases when students rise up against the
administration’s censuring (and censoring) of a campus
poet. Then unrest escalates into a lethally explosive
menace, and Amanda receives a warning that there is more–
and far worse–to come.
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