School may be out for summer, but English teacher
Emily Taylor's homework is just beginning.
Emily has been looking forward to attending Ellington High
School's end-of-the-year carnival fundraiser with her new flame,
Tad...that is until she finds the mayor's body behind the
English department's Whack-a-Mole booth. Suddenly rumors are
flying in their small Missouri town that the mayor's husband was
having an affair with the town's newest dentist-and Emily's good
friend-Amelia Franklin.
With her friend in the role of prime suspect, Emily begins her
own investigation into the mayor's death. But with so many of
the mayor's recent decisions being wildly unpopular-including
one to end the school carnival tradition!-there is no shortage
of suspects. Was it the vocal school superintendent, the
secretive new junior high math teacher, or an old high school
sweetheart of the mayor's husband? With her friend's reputation
at stake and her own new relationship on the rocks Emily knows
she needs to get off the crazy carnival ride her life has become
and find the real killer before this summer vacation becomes her
last!