


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. Certainly not the most interesting of employments. And that means giving tours at the Chapel School, the ultra-exclusive, ultra-expensive, private academy that her children attend. 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. 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.
