Micheal Connelly

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Gillian Roberts

Mystery

St Martins Mass Market Paper

Anthony Award winner for Best First Mystery Novel -- the debut of the Philadelphia-set Amanda Pepper series. Amanda Pepper, English teacher at Philly Prep, does not hate her life. But when a fellow teacher who's engaged to a senate candidate, begs for rest on Amanda's couch, then dies, things could be better. Then the police suspect her of murder, she begins her own investigation, and ends by teaching a certain blue-eyed cop a thing or two.... "Gillian Roberts is a mystery reader's dream come true." Lia Matera

Caught Dead in Philadelphia

Fawcett

Philly Stakes

"The central pleasure is Pepper and her catalogue of urban woes, delivered with self-depracting savagery and humor in a scathing first person." THE PHILADELHPIA INQUIRER Book two in the Amanda Pepper mystery series. Amanda Pepper, an English teacher at school for Philadelphia's filthy rich, is determined to teach the kids a lesson about the true spirit of Christmas. She intends to have them cook and serve a meal to the homeless, but unfortunately a powerful parent takes over, and the simple meal turns into a catered affair--topped off by murder. Of course, Amanda wants to solve the crime with her sometime boyfriend and cop C.K. Mackenzie. She's equally determeind to teach the the elusive killer a lesson or two, as well. From Gillian Roberts, the Anthony Award- winning author of CAUGHT DEAD IN PHILADELPHIA, I'D RATHER BE IN PHILADELPHIA, WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE. . . , and HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION.

Book three in the Anthony Award-winning mystery series featuring Amanda Pepper, the resourceful English teacher at Philly Prep. Amanda is sorting books for a school fundraiser, when she comes across a book for battered women that contains a special and frightening message from its original, anonymous owner. Desperate to learn who donated the books, Amanda's search leads her to deliberate brutality and its cold-blooded consequences. Gillian Roberts is "the Dorothy Parker of mystery writers, laughing when--especially when--it hurts, and giving more wit per page than most writers give per book." Nancy Pickard From the Paperback edition.

I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia

Literature & Fiction

United States

Ballantine Books

"Gillian Roberts is a mystery reader's dream come true." Lia Matera By the Anthony Award-winning author of "I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia," another Amanda Pepper mystery. Well-known Broadway playwright and TV producer Lyle Zacharias is throwing himself a lavish birthday party in his hometown of Philadelphia. Guests include his current wife, ex-wives, friends, former partners -- not to mention Amanda Pepper and her own irrepressible mother, Bea. Yet when Lyle drops dead in the middle of a speech, it appears the likely perpetrator is none other than Bea, whose gift was fifty delicious, but apparently poisoned, tarts! It's up to Amanda to clear her mother's name and find the real murderer . . . before he or she strikes again! But Amanda herself may be the next target! Who says teaching isn't exciting? With any more excitement, Amanda will have to retire before she hits thirty-one . . . if she lives that long!

With Friends Like These

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

"DELIGHTFUL...COLORFUL...Roberts plunks her mystery amid the glitter and grime of casino life." --L.A. Daily News After a tough year of teaching at Philly Prep, Amanda Pepper decides to go to Atlantic City with her friend, Sasha Berg. Yet a beach vacation turns deadly when a bludgeoned corpse shows up in their hotel room--and Sasha is the prime suspect. So Amanda hits the boardwalk to track down the real killer, chasing down clues around the surf and in the casinos, and discovering along the way that appearances are more than deceiving: they can be criminal and, sometimes, downright murderous.... "Roberts combines appealing characters, a good puzzle and some serious messages in an entertaining whole." --Publishers Weekly "The Dorothy Parker of mystery writers." --Nancy Pickard "Gillian Roberts is a mystery reader's dream come true." --Lia Matera

Genre Fiction

Amanda Pepper: Novel

Ballantine Books (T)

In the Dead of Summer

"FULL OF PLEASURES . . . Roberts gives Amanda an appealingly dry wit." --Publishers Weekly While teaching summer school at exclusive Philly Prep, English teacher Amanda Pepper feels a sense of foreboding. First, a reading of Romeo and Juliet activates some very strange chemistry. Then the computer science teacher begins receiving anonymous go-back-to-Africa phone calls. A young Vietnamese boy dies in a drive-by shooting. And late one night, outside a Chinatown massage parlor, student April Tuong is kidnapped. Random violence? Perhaps. But Amanda refuses to let gentle April vanish without at least asking a few questions, starting in her own classroom. Yet the truth, when she finds it, is appalling, deadly, and much too close to home. . . . "Tart-tongued, warm-hearted Amanda's fifth case is as engaging as her others, and here she gets to do more detection than usual." --Kirkus Reviews "Gillian Roberts is a mystery reader's dream come true." --Lia Matera

Contemporary

For English teacher Amanda Pepper, the champagne gala on behalf of Philly Prep's library is her introduction to the ultrarich Main Line society--an evening so extravagant that nothing can tarnish the party . . . not even a group of protesters outside burning the host in effigy. The Moral Ecologists, who vehemently claim that "reading pollutes the mind," will do anything to advance their agenda. And--when her affluent new acquaintances, Neddy and Tea Roederer, prove to be just as deceitful and violent--Amanda learns firsthand that the bluest blood bleeds just as red. Especially when it comes to murder. . . .

The Bluest Blood

Philadelphia schoolteacher Amanda Pepper teams up with a cop named Mackenzie after she comes home one day to find that a friend has been murdered in front of her fireplace

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Micheal Connelly

Caught Dead in Philadelphia

Philly Stakes

I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia

With Friends Like These

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Amanda Pepper: Novel

In the Dead of Summer

The Bluest Blood

Caught Dead in Philadelphia