Federal Prosecutor Melanie Vargas has her hands full when
two privileged
white teenagers, one of them the stepdaughter of a
politician running for the
Senate, overdose on heroin in one of their homes. The girls
were students at
an elite prep school, Holbrooke, and ran with the popular
crowd in school.
Melanie's boss, PR-savvy and eager to please Bernadette
DeFelice, wants to
make sure that the case is handled swiftly and quietly, so
that their office
looks like rock stars for their timely pursuit of justice
and perhaps the
senatorial candidate will remember Bern when he gets into
office. It's
supposed to be an open-and-shut OD case, and Melanie is
supposed to find
the drug dealer who sold to the kids and prosecute him. But
things aren't
what they seem.
For one thing, Carmen Reyes, the daughter of the janitor in
the building
where the dead girls were found has been missing since the
same night of
their deaths. Carmen was a scholarship student at Holbrooke,
and had no
close relationship to the deceased except that they lived in
the same building.
Somehow, though, the same heroin that the other girls
overdosed on is found
in Carmen's locker. Even more confusing is the fact that one
of the girls was
left-handed, but the drugs were found on the right side of
her body, and the
drugs being left in plain sight is just a little too easy to
Melanie. She's
determined to get to the bottom of what happened, and to
bring Carmen
Reyes back home safely.
THE FINISHING SCHOOL was a thrilling, fast-paced romantic
suspense novel
that kept me on the edge of my seat. I can usually guess the
endings of these
sorts of books pretty quickly, but I didn't catch on until
the last 30 pages.
Michele Martinez has a knack for writing snappy dialogue,
intriguing plots,
and keeping the story moving so that you never get bored.
This is the first of
her books that I've read, but is the second in the Melanie
Vargas series (the
first is Most Wanted). These books can definitely be read
out of order, and I'd
recommend them to anyone in the mood for solid and
entertaining romantic
suspense.
In a glittering penthouse high above Park Avenue, two
beautiful teenagers, students at an exclusive Manhattan
girls' school, lie dead under suspicious circumstances.
Feeling pressure from the top to solve the high-profile
case fast, federal prosecutor Melanie Vargas breaks all the
rules and goes undercover. Teamed with Dan O'Reilly, a hard-
to-resist FBI agent with a talent for making her pulse
race, Melanie embarks on a wild chase from the rarefied
world of New York's elite private schools to the darkest
recesses of the city's nightlife. And, ultimately, into a
fight for her life against a devious killer who has no
intention of getting caught.
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