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I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia

Amanda Pepper seriesbook 3 of 14Next:With Friends Like These...(2012) →

Book three in the Anthony Award-winning mystery series featuring Amanda Pepper, the resourceful English teacher at Philly Prep.

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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

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 240 pages

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