Dead Politician Society
A Clare Vengel Undercover Novel
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Publisher Description
The mayor falls down dead in the middle of a speech, and a university secret society promptly claims credit for the murder.
Clare Vengel is given her first undercover assignment: to pose as a student and penetrate the society. She’s a mechanic in her spare time, and thinks book smarts are for people who can’t handle the real world. Instead of infiltrating the club, she alienates a popular professor, and quickly loses the respect of police superiors.
Another politician is killed, and Clare is horrified that student idealism could be ramped up to the point of murder. She gets into gear, forging friendships with students, and a romantic involvement with a key suspect.
When two more politicians die, Clare knows that the murderer she has to unmask is someone she has come to consider a friend. She only hopes that the friend doesn’t unmask her first.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Canadian author Spano takes a light approach to political murder in her awkward debut. When Toronto mayor Hayden Pritchard dies of poisoning at a benefit for working children, the previously obscure Society for Political Utopia claims responsibility and announces in an e-mail that the assassination is just the start of their campaign "to create a political utopia for the real world." In response, the police assign Clare Vengel, an officer with just three months on the job, to pose as a political science student at the local university and attend a class called, perhaps not coincidentally, "Political Utopia for the Real World," to get a lead on the mayor's killer. Vengel finds herself attracted to the instructor, Dr. Matthew Easton, despite signs implicating him in Pritchard's death. The fast ratcheting up of the body count doesn't compensate for Vengel, who's a particularly vapid lead.
