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tarana's review against another edition
4.0
This was a good unraveling mystery. As with the other novels in this series, Amanda is not perfect and makes mistakes, but rather as an average person rather than something weird that moves the plot along.
bjerz's review against another edition
4.0
I am new to Gillian Roberts (the nom de plume of Judith Greber) and her series staring Philadelphia High School English teacher Amanda Pepper. I like Pepper who, like her name, has spunk. She is also kind and dedicated to her students. She loves the arts and yearns to live in the palatial home of one of her students, which she and her police detective lover visit one evening. Her longings are disturbed by the presence of a loathsome protester and things go downhill from there. Her school principal decides to give in to the protester but her students go nuts, protesting themselves and getting lots of unwanted attention for the school. The principal is "so ravaged by the hissing and shouting behind him, so clammy and sweaty...,he looked and sounded like a man who required the Heimlich maneuver." Things get even more complicated when the first protester is found dead, burned to death on his own byre, but Pepper figures out who the bad guy is and helps save the day. A fun romp. I recommend it.
julieputty's review
4.0
I don't really understand how one plot point worked, but I still enjoyed the journey and the resolution.
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