Claire and Present Danger (An Amanda Pepper Mystery) - Softcover

Roberts, Gillian

 
9780449007365: Claire and Present Danger (An Amanda Pepper Mystery)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0449007367 ISBN 13: 9780449007365
Verlag: Fawcett, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Worried about the background of Emmie Cade, her son's beautiful if enigmatic young fiancée, the autocratic Claire Fairchild hires Philadelphia schoolteacher and amateur sleuth Amanda Pepper to investigate the truth about some mysterious anonymous letters that hint at scandal--and worse--in Emmie's background. Reprint.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Gillian Roberts is the nom de mystère of mainstream novelist Judith Greber. Winner of the Anthony Award for Best First Mystery for Caught Dead in Philadelphia, she is also the author of Philly Stakes, I’d Rather Be in Philadelphia, With Friends Like These . . . , How I Spent My Summer Vacation, In the Dead of Summer, The Mummers’ Curse, The Bluest Blood, Adam and Evil, and Helen Hath No Fury. Formerly an English teacher in Philadelphia, Gillian Roberts now lives in California.


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Aus dem Klappentext

of Brotherly Love, nobody knows a thing about Emmie Cade, a young widow who appeared from nowhere, and in the blink of an eye was engaged to Leo Fairchild, a middle-aged bachelor with a fortune. However, as her marriage date approaches, Emmie s mother-in-law to be, the ailing, autocratic Claire Fairchild, receives anonymous letters. They suggest, none too subtly, that there s a great deal to learn about the mysterious young woman, none of it good, and much of it involving the violent deaths of the men in her life.

Enter Amanda Pepper who, after completing her day of teaching English at Philly Prep, now moonlights as a P.I. along with C.K. Mackenzie, former homicide detective, current graduate student at Penn. The two of them are hired by Mrs. Fairchild to find out who the charming but evasive Emmie Cade really is. At thirty-two, the young woman has changed her address and name more often than some women change nail polish and deliberately or not, she’

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Verlag
Fawcett
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0449007367
ISBN 13 
9780449007365
Einband
Libro de bolsillo
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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