β Scribed by Jane O'Connor
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Miranda "Rannie" Bookmanβ43, divorced mother of two, with a recent love life consisting of a long string of embarrassingly brief encountersβis beginning to feel like a dangling participle: connected to nothing. Her career as a copyeditor is down the toilet (she makes one little slipβa missing "l" from the last word in the title of the Nancy Drew classic The Secret of the Old Clock βand suddenly she's Publishing Enemy #1!), so she's been forced to take any gig she can get. And that means giving tours at the Chapel School, the ultra-exclusive, ultra-expensive, private academy that her children attend. Certainly not the most interesting of employments . . . at least until someone stumbles across the dead body of the Director of College Admissions.
Investigating a murder was never in her job description, but with her soon-to-be-college-bound boy Nate a prime suspect, Rannie has little choice....
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
"Admissions. *Admission*. Aren't there two sides to the word? And two opposing sides...It's what we let in, but it's also what we let out." For years, 38-year-old Portia Nathan has avoided the past, hiding behind her busy (and sometimes punishing) career as a Princeton University admissions officer
"Admissions. *Admission*. Aren't there two sides to the word? And two opposing sides...It's what we let in, but it's also what we let out." For years, 38-year-old Portia Nathan has avoided the past, hiding behind her busy (and sometimes punishing) career as a Princeton University admissions of
"Admissions. *Admission*. Aren't there two sides to the word? And two opposing sides...It's what we let in, but it's also what we let out." For years, 38-year-old Portia Nathan has avoided the past, hiding behind her busy (and sometimes punishing) career as a Princeton University a