Best Practices
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A tense and claustrophobic mystery set in the Montana wilderness starring Nora Best.
Nora Best is starting her life over . . . again. Spotting a ‘team leader’ job with a therapy program for troubled girls at Serendipity Ranch, Nora thinks it’s the perfect role. She’ll be surrounded by the beautiful Montana wilderness and be able to make a difference in the kids’ lives.
All is going well until it’s revealed a girl recently died at the ranch. The other girls are struggling with the loss. The official line is she jumped from a cliff, but she was afraid of heights and would have struggled to get there alone.
As trouble at the ranch escalates and another shocking discovery is made, Nora’s determined to find out the truth to protect the girls. However, with her recent troubles, the local community, police and program leaders won’t take her seriously. Can Nora overcome her past to help the girls, or are the girls using her past to help themselves?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Florio's poignant third Nora Best mystery (after 2021's Best Kept Secrets) finds Nora en route to Montana's Serendipity Ranch, a therapy camp for troubled young women, where she's taken a housemother job. On arrival, she learns that a student, Irene Bell, allegedly jumped to her death into a gorge the night before. While authorities rule it a suicide, the girls insist Irene was afraid of heights and would never have voluntarily been near a cliff. Meanwhile, Nora becomes acquainted with the ranch director, Charlie Ennis, whose strict practices, such as forcing girls who don't finish their oatmeal to eat it for lunch and dinner, she questions. Later, on a hike with the students and Charlie, Nora accidentally stumbles into the same gorge where Irene died and discovers the body of a former housemother at the ranch. Determined to find the truth behind the deaths and expose the ranch's misconduct, Nora springs into action. A strong female lead and a dramatic look at seldom discussed social injustices more than compensate for a familiar plot and ordinary prose. Hopefully, Nora will be back soon.
