Flat characters and sketchy plotting mar this second installment (after 1998's Time and Trouble
) of Anthony Award winner Roberts's series featuring Tiburon, Calif., PI Emma Howe and her assistant, Billie August. Defense attorney Michael...
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Gillian Roberts, Author . Ballantine $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-345-45490-4
Anthony Award winner Roberts offers another charming and amusing cozy, the 11th to feature Philadelphia high school teacher and part-time sleuth Amanda Pepper (after 2000's Helen Hath No Fury). Amanda and her ex-cop lover, C.K. Mackenzie, who'
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Gillian Roberts, Author . Ballantine $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-345-45492-8
Shortly after Amanda Pepper slips out of the headmaster's annual address to the student body in Anthony Award–winner Roberts's assured 12th novel (after 2003's Claire and Present Danger
) to feature the Philly Prep English teacher,
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Gillian Roberts, Author Thomas Dunne Books $18.99 (372p) ISBN 978-0-312-18673-9
Veteran Roberts (the Amanda Pepper series) introduces a new sleuthing pair, Northern California's Emma Howe, middle-aged owner of a middling investigative firm, and Billie August, a young single mother whom Emma hires and whose experience consists...
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Gillian Roberts, Author Ballantine Books $22 (230p) ISBN 978-0-345-40326-1
Amanda Pepper has a delicate job as an English teacher at Philadelphia's exclusive Philly Prep. She must interact tactfully with a broad spectrum of the city's elite--and, as this unpredictable and witty book ably points out, none of them are what...
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Gillian Roberts, Author Scribner Book Company $0 (234p) ISBN 978-0-684-18809-6
Amanda Pepper is a wide-eyed and overzealous young Philadelphia schoolteacher who debuts in a not-very-mysterious mystery, the first in a series. Returning home from school, Amanda finds a friend has been murdered in her living room. Always in the...
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Gillian Roberts, Author Ballantine Books $20 (233p) ISBN 978-0-345-38595-6
Philadelphia teacher Amanda Pepper is vacationing with Sasha Berg, a woman photographer friend willing to share the hotel room she will occupy while working in Atlantic City. On arrival, their hotel gives them a free upgrade to a luxurious, high-roll
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Gillian Roberts, Author Ballantine Books $21 (243p) ISBN 978-0-345-39136-0
Summertime and the living's uneasy for levelheaded English teacher Amanda Pepper (last seen in How I Spent My Summer Vacation). Not only has she reached a crossroads in her relationship with Philadelphia cop C.K. Mackenzie, but she has also been...
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Gillian Roberts, Author Ballantine Books $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-345-40323-0
Philadelphia's New Year's Day Mummers' Parade, a splashy, fiercely competitive affair, turns murderous in yet another funny Philly puzzler for schoolteacher Amanda Pepper (In the Dead of Summer, etc.). Amanda watches as a costumed Pierrot collapses...
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Gillian Roberts, Author Ballantine Books $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-345-42934-6
In her ninth adventure (after The Bluest Blood), Philadelphia Prep's English teacher, Amanda Pepper, is distracted by a mid-life crisis--so much so that readers will solve this novel's mystery before she does. Amanda has been having trouble with...
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Gillian Roberts, Author Ballantine Books $23 (240p) ISBN 978-0-345-42933-9
In a touching preface, Anthony Award-winner Roberts explains that her 10th mystery to feature spinster teacher Amanda Pepper is largely a tribute to a book group friend who died in a bicycle accident. In the novel proper, Amanda has belonged to a...
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Gillian Roberts, Author Ballantine Books $23.95 (255p) ISBN 978-0-345-48021-7
Roberts brings her Amanda Pepper series to a satisfying close with this 14th and final installment (after 2006's A Hole in Juan), in which the Philadelphia English teacher cum PI-in-training investigates an apparent suicide as she and her...
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Gillian Roberts, Author, Jay Ed. Roberts, Author Scribner Book Company $17.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-684-19071-6
After a reading of A Christmas Carol , Philadelphia schoolteacher Amanda Pepper tries to instill a sense of compassion in her private-school sophomore students by suggesting they give a Christmas party for the homeless at a shelter. The idea is...
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Gillian Roberts, Author, Alan Dean Foster, Author Ballantine Books $18 (249p) ISBN 978-0-345-37783-8
Several chapters of inconsequential scene-setting precede the poisoning death of insufferable TV producer Lyle Zacharias at the 50th birthday party he has thrown for himself in the South Philadelphia neighborhood where he grew up. The guest list...
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