Wanted!
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A teenager on the run will do whatever it takes to clear her name and find her father's killer in this thriller by the author of the Janie Johnson series.
When Alice Robbie receives a strange call from her father, instructing her to drop everything, get in his precious Corvette, and meet him at her favorite ice cream shop, she can't help feeling like something is wrong. But before she can even leave, Alice discovers the horrifying truth: Her father has been murdered.
Even worse, someone has hacked into Alice's email and framed her with a confession of guilt. With no one to corroborate her story, Alice has no choice but to become a fugitive. Caught up in a living nightmare, Alice must figure out who really killed her father, and why, before the police can put her behind bars—or the killer puts her six feet under . . .
Buckle up for this fast-paced thrill ride from the bestselling author of The Face on the Milk Carton.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Caroline B. Cooney including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author's personal collection.
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Alice Robie can't believe it when her straitlaced, divorced father calls her at his apartment and tells her to grab a certain diskette, hop into his prized Corvette and meet him outside town, as fast as she can--never mind that she doesn't have a driver's license. Before she can leave, however, someone breaks in, searching for the diskette and muttering, "I killed him good." Alice outwaits the intruder, then drives off in a panic. Over the radio she hears that her father has been murdered and that she herself has supposedly written a confession. Most readers will happily trade a few key implausibilities for Cooney's (The Face on the Milk Carton) movie-popcorn-enticing blandishments: a charismatic heroine, a smoothly gossipy tone and a nonstop plot. As Alice--"a nice pleasant girl who didn't butt in line, didn't write graffiti on the bathroom stall doors"--adopts ruse after ruse in lightning-fast order to elude the police and the real murderer, the pace and the tension escalate fiercely. That the identity of the villain is obvious and the motivation for the crime strained won't deter readers from their rush to get to the ending. Ages 11-up.
