Bestselling author Isabel Allende, well known for her literary novels such as as
Maya's Notebook and
Island Beneath the Sea, tries her hand at writing crime fiction in her new novel
Ripper, an atmospheric, mystery involving a brilliant teenage sleuth who must unmask a serial killer in San Francisco.
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Library Journal praise Allende newest novel but
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Ripper mixed reviews. What do you think? Let us know!
Summary: Even though their bond is strong, mother and daughter, Indiana and Amanda, are as different as night and day. Indiana, a beautiful holistic healer, is a free-spirited bohemian who looks for the good in people. Amanda is fascinated by the dark side of human nature, like her father, the SFPD’s Deputy Chief of Homicide.
Brilliant and introverted, the MIT-bound high school senior is a natural-born sleuth addicted to crime novels and Ripper, the online mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around the world.
When a string of strange murders occurs across the city, Amanda plunges into her own investigation, discovering, before the police do, that the deaths may be connected. But the case becomes all too personal when Indiana suddenly vanishes.
Could her mother’s disappearance be linked to the serial killer? Now, with her mother’s life on the line, the young detective must solve the most complex mystery she’s ever faced before it’s too late.
