| <b>book description</b><br/>the no.1 "new york times" bestselling author strikes gold once more with a new series featuring a pop star-turned-girl detective in a mystery that rocks.<br/><br/>heather wells rocks!<br/><br/>or, at least, she did. that was before she left the pop-idol life behind after she gained a dress size or two — lost a boyfriend, a recording contract, her life savings (when mom took the money ran off to argentina). now that the glamour glory days of endless mall appearances are in the past, heather's perfectly happy with her new size 12 shape (the average for the american woman!) her new job as an assistant dorm director at one of new york's top colleges. that is, until the dead body of a female student from heather's residence hall is discovered at the bottom of an elevator shaft.<br/><br/>the cops the college president are ready to chalk the death off as an accident, the result of reckless youthful mischief. but heather knows teenage girls . . . girls do not elevator surf. yet no one wants to listen — not the police, her colleagues, or the p.i. who owns the brownstone where she lives — even when more students start turning up dead in equally ordinary subtly sinister ways. so heather makes the decision to take on yet another new career: as spunky girl detective!<br/><br/>but her new job comes with few benefits, no cheering crowds, lots of liabilities, some of them potentially fatal. nothing ticks off a killer more than a portly ex-pop star who's sticking her nose where it doesn't belong . . .<br/><br/><b>from <i>publishers weekly</i></b><br/>bag the tiara get out the gun: heather wells, former teen idol, turns detective in the cute debut of a new mystery series from bestseller cabot (the princess project other titles in her princess diaries series). after the 20-something heather's rocker boyfriend dumps her, her mother manager flee with her earnings, she becomes an assistant director of an undergraduate residence hall at manhattan's new york college (read: nyu) in hopes of free tuition. when students start to die mysteriously while "elevator surfing" in the building, weight-conscious, romance-obsessed heather goes on a crazed hunt to uncover the truth—with an unwavering sense of style. as magda, heather's dorm cashier friend, says: "even if the rest of your life is going down the toilet... at least your toes can still look pretty." cabot delivers heather's amateur sleuthing adventures in a rapid-fire narrative that may leave some readers begging for time-outs to control sudden laughing fits. <br/><br/><b>from <i>booklist</i></b><br/>at 28, former teen-pop-star heather wells feels as though she has lost everything: her family fortune (her mom fled the ry with heather's earnings), her recording contract, her slender waistline, her fiance, jordan, a philering, boy-b singer. then jordan's brother, cooper, a dreamy private investigator family black sheep, offers heather room board in exchange for clerical work, she finds an additional job as a residence-hall director at a nearby greenwich village university. after several female students turn up dead at the dorm, heather takes on her own stealthy investigation finds herself the target of the killer. in the first title in her heather wells series, cabot combines a fairly straightforward mystery with a single-girl-in-the-city plot in which heather triumphs over cheating guys, bad luck, a fattist society. most of the characters are two-dimensional, but heather's strong, amusing voice, the plot twists, the possibility of romance will draw mystery chick-lit readers alike.<br/> gillian engberg<br/><br/><b>about author</b><br/>meg cabot is the author of the bestselling, critically acclaimed princess diaries books, which were made into the wildly popular disney movies of the same name. her other books for teens include the mediator series, the 1-800-where-r-you books, all-american girl, ready or not, teen idol, avalon high how to be popular, as well as nicola the vis victoria the rogue. she also writes books for adults, including the boy next door, boy meets girl, every boy's got one, size 12 is not fat queen of babble. she is still waiting for her real parents, the king queen, to restore her to her rightful throne. she currently lives in key west new york city with her husb a primary one-eyed cat named henrietta, assorted backup cats.<br/><br/><b>book dimension:</b><br/>length: (cm)20.4 width:(cm) 13.6 |
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