Ripper

<p>Isabel Allende--the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author whose books including <em>Maya's Notebook Island Beneath the Sea</em> and <em>Zorro</em> have sold more than 57 million copies around the world--demonstrates her remarkable literary versatility with <em>Ripper</em> an atmospheric fast-paced mystery involving a brilliant teenage sleuth who must unmask a serial killer in San Francisco.</p><p>The Jackson women Indiana and Amanda have always had each other. Yet while their bond is strong mother and daughter are as different as night and day. Indiana a beautiful holistic healer is a free-spirited bohemian. Long divorced from Amanda's father she's reluctant to settle down with either of the men who want her--Alan the wealthy scion of one of San Francisco's elite families and Ryan an enigmatic scarred former Navy SEAL.</p><p>While her mom looks for the good in people Amanda is fascinated by the dark side of human nature like her father the SFPD's Deputy Chief of Homicide. Brilliant and introverted the MIT-bound high school senior is a natural-born sleuth addicted to crime novels and Ripper the online mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around the world.</p><p>When a string of strange murders occurs across the city Amanda plunges into her own investigation discovering before the police do that the deaths may be connected. But the case becomes all too personal when Indiana suddenly vanishes. Could her mother's disappearance be linked to the serial killer? Now with her mother's life on the line the young detective must solve the most complex mystery she's ever faced before it's too late.</p>