Harper
February 2014
On Sale: January 28, 2014
Featuring: Indiana Jackson; Amanda Jackson
500 pages ISBN: 0062291408 EAN: 9780062291400 Kindle: B00DB3D78A Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Isabel Allendeβthe New York Times bestselling author whose books, including Mayaβs Notebook, Island Beneath the Sea, and Zorro, have sold more than 57 million copies around the worldβdemonstrates her remarkable literary versatility with Ripper, an atmospheric, fast-paced mystery involving a brilliant teenage sleuth who must unmask a serial killer in San Francisco.
The Jackson women, Indiana and Amanda, have always had each other. Yet, while their bond is strong, mother and daughter are as different as night and day. Indiana, a beautiful holistic healer, is a free-spirited bohemian. Long divorced from Amandaβs father, sheβs reluctant to settle down with either of the men who want herβAlan, the wealthy scion of one of San Franciscoβs elite families, and Ryan, an enigmatic, scarred former Navy SEAL.
While her mom looks for the good in people, Amanda is fascinated by the dark side of human nature, like her father, the SFPDβs Deputy Chief of Homicide. Brilliant and introverted, the MIT-bound high school senior is a natural-born sleuth addicted to crime novels and Ripper, the online mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around the world.
When a string of strange murders occurs across the city, Amanda plunges into her own investigation, discovering, before the police do, that the deaths may be connected. But the case becomes all too personal when Indiana suddenly vanishes. Could her motherβs disappearance be linked to the serial killer? Now, with her motherβs life on the line, the young detective must solve the most complex mystery sheβs ever faced before itβs too late.
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