Saturday, August 30, 2008

Back to School: Mysteries Involving Teachers

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Resort to Murder / by Mary Ellen Hughes
Needing a break from her job as a high school Geometry teacher, Maggie Olenski is looking forward to her resort weekend getaway. But when the body of a hotel employee turns up dead, another mystery seems ‘angling’ to get at her.


Children’s Games / by Janet LaPierre
Meg Halloran and daughter Katy were glad to start a new life in a new town until letters from one of Meg’s former student’s finds stirs things up. Can Meg protect herself and her daughter while maintaining her incognito status?


The Salaryman’s Wife / by Sujata Massey
An American English teacher working abroad in Tokyo, native Californian Rei Shimura suspects the police to be erring in their investigation of a murder during Rei’s weekend holiday north of the city.

A Little Yellow Dog: an Easy Rawlins Mystery /
by Walter Mosley
After a series of distasteful events force Easy to assume the position of supervising custodian at a Watts junior high school, he’s immediately thrust into investigating (incognito) the disappearance of a teacher and the murder of another staff member.

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