Dangerous Admissions: Secrets of a Closet Sleuth

Miranda Rannie Bookman--43, divorced mother of two, with a recent love life consisting of a long string of embarrassingly brief encounters--is beginning to feel like a dangling participle: connected to nothing. Her career as a copyeditor is down the toilet (she makes one little slip--a missing l from the last word in the title of the Nancy Drew classic The Secret of the Old Clock--and 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. Besides, who better to dot all the is and cross all the ts than a self-proclaimed language cop? Her diligence might even lead her to a brand-new love. Or to a killer. Or to another corpse--hopefully not her own.

Author: Jane O'Connor
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 07/31/2007
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.36w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780061240867

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/04/2007 pg. 29
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2007 pg. 626
New York Times Book Review 08/19/2007 pg. 11
New York Times Book Review 08/26/2007 pg. 22
School Library Journal 12/01/2007

About the Author
O'Connor, Jane: -

Jane O'Connor is an editor at a major publishing house who has written more than seventy books for children, including the New York Times bestselling Fancy Nancy series. She resides (that's fancy for lives) with her family in New York City.