Bøger af Diane Weiner

Eerie violin music, flashing lights, a battered security guard, a dead music teacher....more than Susan Wiles bargained for when she flew to Florida to meet her newly-found birth mother, Audrey Roberts, for the first time. Audrey is in charge of Hemingway High School for the Performing Arts, a tony private school in Banyan Beach, Florida. The bad publicity surrounding the school jeopardizes its existence when donors threaten to withhold funding, and parents begin withdrawing their children. Luckily for Audrey, Susan happens to be a retired music teacher...and an amateur sleuth extraordinaire. Against the wishes of Susan's detective daughter, who has accompanied her on the trip, Susan volunteers to substitute for the dead choral teacher, and uses her new position to work on solving the case. Can Susan solve the murder at this private school? Or will her detective work get her in more trouble than she can handle? Find out in Diane Weiner's hot new cozy mystery MURDER IS PRIVATE.

An urgent phone call from a principal/friend sends retired music teacher Susan Wiles rushing through the doors of Westbrook Middle School, where she discovers a ransacked office and a missing bookkeeper. Eager to keep the break-in quiet, Principal Antonio Petrocelli enlists her help. Susan had already proven her sleuthing expertise by solving murder cases at Westbrook Elementary and Westbrook High. Too bad Susan's detective daughter Lynette doesn't appreciate her mother's interference in police business. That won't stop Susan, however. What clues does she have this time? A missing bookkeeper, two brothers, a waterfall, and a suspicious death. What's the relationship? It's all very murky and Susan must solve the mystery while in the middle of coping with an acute family crisis that may forever change the life of someone she loves.

Retired teacher Susan Wiles thought she'd be content spending her time knitting baby blankets and volunteering at the local high school, but she was dead wrong. When her husband's best friend, Tank, is accused of sexually harassing one of his students, Susan puts her sleuthing skills into action, much to the chagrin of her husband and police detective daughter. When a dead body is discovered in a construction site behind the school, the stakes quickly escalate. But before she can solve this new mystery and exonerate Tank, she finds herself dealing with personal and family issues that force her to realize that MURDER IS SECONDARY.

Susan Wiles is blissfully retired from her teaching position at Westbrook Elementary School. What a joy to be able to attend the holiday concert without worrying about how her student chorus will perform. But, wait a minute. Where's the principal, Vicki Rogers? The concert can't resume before she greets the parents and guests. Susan offers to go check the main office, only to find the missing administrator lying dead on the office floor. My goodness! Nothing like this ever happened when Susan had worked here. Of course, now that she's retired she has time to help the local police (one of whom is her daughter Lynette) investigate the mysterious crime. Did the principal die of natural causes? The bruises on her face don't seem severe enough to be fatal. But what about that cupcake sitting on her desk? Could she have been poisoned? Susan has just found the perfect retirement activity--much to her daughter's chagrin. And when the dead woman's teenage daughter and one of Susan's former top students, begs for Susan's help--how can she say no? Little does Susan realize that this crime will take her far from the schoolhouse doors, as she investigates a mystery that extends back into one family's painful past.

Professor Jenna Blake is back. She survived a school shooting. She survived her husband's suicide. With the help of supportive parents, a therapy dog, and Oreos, she's regained her grip on life. Or has she? On her first day back from an extended sabbatical, she finds a cryptic note on her desk requesting a meeting. When the anonymous note writer is a no-show and later turns up dead, it ignites a volatile chain of events. If she can't explain why her scarf, address, and DNA are found on the dead stranger, she'll lose her job and be thrown in jail. When Jenna discovers a second victim murdered in the woods and one of her students goes missing, she rises to the top of the suspect list. Enlisting the help of a hot private investigator, her humorous teaching assistant, and the original victim's fiancé, she fights to uncover the twisted truth.

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