Quick Study: A Murder 101 Mystery - Hardcover

Barbieri, Maggie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312376758 ISBN 13: 9780312376758

Publisher: Minotaur Books, 2008

Synopsis

College English professor Alison Bergeron thought that dating a cute NYPD detective like Bobby Crawford would be exciting and involve a lot of riding around in cruisers and putting away sleazy crooks, but he has yet to invite her on any stakeouts. . . .

Then when a friend asks her to help him find his nephew, she goes to Bobby for advice only to find out that he already knows about the case. He pulled the boy out of the Hudson River a few days earlier. The boy’s employer calls it an accident, but Alison and Bobby aren’t convinced.

With matchmaking and sleuthing to spare, staying out of trouble isn’t on the syllabus when Alison and Bobby team up in Quick Study, Maggie Barbieri’s most outrageous outing yet.

 

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From the Back Cover:

For professional academic and amateur sleuth Alison Bergeron, staying out of trouble is never on the syllabus...

She thought that dating a good-looking cop would be exciting and involve lots of riding around in cruisers and putting away sleazy crooks. So why hasn’t NYPD officer Bobby Crawford ever invited English professor Alison on any high-speed car chases or stakeouts?

“Series Grade: A.”—Susan McBride, author of the Debutante Dropout series

Life on the sleepy college campus just north of Manhattan may not have changed all that much with Alison’s new romance. But things are about to heat up when an man named Hernan Escalante asks Alison for a favor: Can she help locate his nephew, an illegal Ecuadorian immigrant named Jose, who has mysteriously gone missing? Always up for a challenge, Alison agrees to help Hernan—and begins her investigation by asking Bobby for some expert advice. Turns out Bobby already knows about what happened to Jose, since he’s the one who pulled his corpse out of the Hudson River a few days earlier. With this case, it seems Alison’s still got a lot to learn...

“MYSTERY, ROMANCE, AND HUMOR  BLEND SEAMLESSLY...REMINISCENT OF [JANET EVANOVICH’S] PLUM SERIES, THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED.”—Romantic Times BOOKreviews

About the Author:

Maggie Barbieri, author of Extracurricular Activities, is a freelance editor as well as a mystery novelist. Her father was a member of the NYPD, and his stories provide much of the background for her mysteries. This is her third novel in the Alison Bergeron series, which has been optioned for television by Kristin Davis. She lives in Westchester County, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0312376758
• ISBN 13: 9780312376758
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336