O'Connor, Jane.

Dangerous admissions : secrets of a closet sleuth / by Jane O'Connor. - 1st ed. - New York : Avon Books, c2007. - 353 p. ; 21 cm.

Miranda "Rannie" Bookman --- B43, 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. 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. And that means giving tours at the Chapel School, the ultra-exclusive, ultra-expensive, private academy that her children attend. Certainly not the most interesting of employments . . . 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. Besides, who better to dot all the "i"s and cross all the "t"s than a self-proclaimed "language cop"? Her diligence might even lead her to a brand-new love. Or to a killer. Or to another corpse --- hopefully not her own.

ISBN: 9780061240867 (acid-free paper) 0061240869 (acid-free paper)

LCCN: 2006036991

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Divorced women--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Mystery fiction

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.54