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A Murder 101 Mystery

A Murder 101 Mystery (Volume 3)

Maggie Barbieri

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She thought that dating a good-looking cop would be exciting and involve lots of riding around in cruisers and putting away sleazy crooks. So why hasn’t NYPD officer Bobby Crawford ever invited English professor Alison on any high-speed car chases or stakeouts?

Life on the sleepy college campus just north of Manhattan may not have changed all that much with Alison’s new romance. But things are about to heat up when an man named Hernan Escalante asks Alison for a favor: Can she help locate his nephew, an illegal Ecuadorian immigrant named Jose, who has mysteriously gone missing? Always up for a challenge, Alison agrees to help Hernan—and begins her investigation by asking Bobby for some expert advice. Turns out Bobby already knows about what happened to Jose, since he’s the one who pulled his corpse out of the Hudson River a few days earlier. With this case, it seems Alison’s still got a lot to learn…

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“I don’t know who you are, but I love you!”
The voice was deep, rough, and heavily in.ected with the ac­cent of one of the outer boroughs, and it belonged to the guy sitting in back of me at Madison Square Garden, home of the New York Rangers, my favorite professional hockey team. And the comment, which had been directed at me, was all the more interesting because I was sitting beside my best friend, Max, who had slipped her one- hundred- pound frame into a slinky size- two black cocktail dress, her cleavage prominently and proudly displayed for all to see.

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Maggie Barbieri

Maggie Barbieri, author of the Murder 101 series, is a freelance textbook editor as well as a mystery novelist. Her father was a member of the New York Police Department, and his stories provide much of the background for her mysteries. This is her third novel. She lives in Westchester County, New York.

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Quick Study
A Murder 101 Mystery
A Murder 101 Mystery (Volume 3)
Maggie Barbieri

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St. Martin's Press
Minotaur Books
November 2009
Mass Market Paperbound
ISBN: 9780312376765
ISBN10: 0312376766
4 3/16 x 6 3/4 inches, 352 pages
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December 2008
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ISBN: 9780312376758
ISBN10: 0312376758
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