Ripper

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A gripping thriller from the bestselling Isabel Allende.
For teenage sleuth Amanda Martn and her friends, Ripper was all just a game. But when security guard Ed Staton is found dead in the middle of a school gym, the murder presents a mystery that baffles the San Francisco police, not least Amandas father, Deputy Chief Martn. Amanda goes online, offering The Case of the Misplaced Baseball Bat to her fellow sleuths as a challenge to their real-life wits. And so begins a most dangerous obsession.

The murders begin to mount up but the Ripper players, free from any moral and legal restraints, are free to pursue any line of enquiry. As their unique powers of intuition lead them ever closer to the truth, the case becomes all too personal when Amandas mother suddenly vanishes. Could her disappearance be linked to the serial killer And will Amanda and her online accomplices solve the mystery before its too late

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A literary banquet overflowing with morsels of Nancy Drew, mouthfuls of Agatha Christie, a sprinkle of Barbara Cartland and dashes of James Patterson and Tom Clancy [The]combination of detective story and romantic saga is likely to intrigue Allende fans What lingers is Allende's generosity with fictional detail, her warmth and humanity Observer

Idiosyncratic, unflinching, glaringly contemporary (it is about a bunch of online gamers who end up tracking a serial killer in San Francisco) and obviously much better written than it needs to be. Allende excels at exacting portraiture and barbed asides Guardian

As it gathers pace, the tale becomes gripping and delivers a clever final twist Sunday Times

Ripper is full of wry humour. Brimming over with humanity it is very far from being a straightforward thriller All Allende's habitual concerns are on display: the interplay of character, the importance of family and the conflicting pulls of religion, spiritualism and alternative remedies Allende manages to pull it off as a terrific storyteller. She holds the reader's attention from start to finish and throws in a neat twist at the end Daily Express, Five Stars

Thoroughly charming book a lot of fun to read. Also, it features a teenage sleuth who is pretty much irresistible
Allende blithely dispenses with the more restrictive genre conventions to get to the fun parts A canvas so crowded with life that even death seems to melt into the background New York Times

Literary icon Isabel Allende mesmerizes with her first crime novel this race-against-the-clock thriller is pure magic People Magazine

The author handles a complicated plot and complex characters with great skill Country Life Magazine

Author Bio

Isabel Allende is the author of twelve works of fiction, including the New York Times bestsellers Maya"s Notebook, Island Beneath the Sea, Ins of My Soul, Daughter of Fortune, and a novel that has become a world-renowned classic, The House of the Spirits. Born in Peru and raised in Chile, she lives in California.