Dangerous Admissions

<p>Miranda Rannie Bookman--43 divorced mother of two with a recent love life consisting of a long string of embarrassingly brief encounters--is beginning to feel like a dangling participle: connected to nothing. Her career as a copyeditor is down the toilet (she makes one little slip--a missing l from the last word in the title of the Nancy Drew classic <em>The Secret of the Old Clock</em>--and suddenly she's Publishing Enemy #1!) so she's been forced to take any gig she can get. And that means giving tours at the Chapel School the ultra-exclusive ultra-expensive private academy that her children attend. Certainly not the most interesting of employments . . . at least until someone stumbles across the dead body of the Director of College Admissions.</p><p>Investigating a murder was never in her job description but with her soon-to-be-college-bound boy Nate a prime suspect Rannie has little choice. Besides who better to dot all the is and cross all the ts than a self-proclaimed language cop? Her diligence might even lead her to a brand-new love. Or to a killer. Or to another corpse--hopefully not her own.</p>