One afternoon during play practice, the dramatics teacher at Manhattan's prestigious Chadwick Academy, Marva Malin is found strangled and laying in a pool of blood on the auditorium floor, having been thrown over the balcony rail.
Liz Rooney, an assistant to the coroner, is on the scene, listening to the faculty's conversations and trying to find clues for her fiancé, NYPD homicide detective Ike Eichle.
For all her efforts, she is kidnapped by terrorists, members of an underground al Qaeda cell in Manhattan. While held hostage for the release of their leader who is imprisoned in Iraq by the U.S. military, Liz discovers a link between one of the terrorists and the school murder.
With the U.S. government's refusal to negotiate with terrorists, Liz fears her time is running out, but a bizarre stroke of luck leads to her rescue and the capture of the terrorists.
The information Liz picked up while captive proves useful to Ike, helping him eliminate the murder suspects one by one until the killer is caught.
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Dorothy P. O'Neill, a native of Staten Island, New York, has lived in Greensboro, North Carolina for the past sixteen years. A former newspaper columnist and advertising copywriter, Dorothy had numerous poems and light verse published in Good Housekeeping and other leading magazines before her first novel, a romance, was published in 1993.
Coroner's assistant Liz Rooney (Smoke Cover, 2004, and Final Note, 2005) is back. When Marva Malin, the drama teacher at an exclusive Manhattan prep school, is found strangled in the auditorium, Liz is on the scene searching for clues. The fact that no one is upset about Malin's death indicates that suspects will be abundant. Liz's fiance, homicide detective Ike Eichle, interviews witnesses and searches for the weapon, while Liz divides her time between work and planning their upcoming wedding. When members of an al-Qaeda cell kidnap her, hoping to exchange her for their leader, who is imprisoned in Iraq, Liz finds a link between one of her captors and the crime at the school. The plot is a bit far-fetched, but it is very timely, and Liz and her friends make good company. An unlikely but engaging mix of traditional cozy elements with a terrorist suspense story. Barbara Bibel
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