Online articles about the case and interview transcripts are provided throughout, and Pip’s capstone logs offer insights into her thought processes as new evidence and suspects arise. Pip’s sleuthing is both impressive and accessible. But someone is watching, and Pip may be in more danger than she realizes. With his help, Pip digs deeper, unveiling unsavory facts about Andie and the real reason Sal’s friends couldn’t provide him with an alibi. Unable to ignore the gaps in the case, Pip sets out to prove Sal’s innocence, beginning with interviewing his younger brother, Ravi.
Andie’s body was never recovered, and Sal was assumed by most to be guilty of abduction and murder. The original investigation concluded with most of the evidence pointing to Sal, who was found dead in the woods, apparently by suicide. For her senior capstone project, Pip researches the disappearance of former Fairview High student Andie, last seen on April 18, 2014, by her younger sister, Becca. Pip has known and liked Sal since childhood he’d supported her when she was being bullied in middle school. 14 & up)Įveryone believes that Salil Singh killed his girlfriend, Andrea Bell, five years ago-except Pippa Fitz-Amobi. Naturally, boys and fashion also figure into the story, fleshing out a distinctive scenario that should appeal to many teen girls. But could one of Sutton’s friends, or even someone closer, be the murderer? Shepard keeps the action rolling and the clues confusing as she spends this installment uncovering the twins’ characters but not solving the murder yet.
However, a good twin/bad twin scenario emerges, as Emma learns that Sutton and her friends enjoy playing cruel pranks. Both twins want to solve the murder, even as Emma almost inadvertently takes Sutton’s place at her home, where no one knows she’s dead. She attaches her ghostly self, undetected, to Emma and reads Emma’s thoughts, giving the novel a compelling first-/third-person point of view. Sutton realizes she’s dead, but she can’t remember much of her life. Emma, the living sister, has been raised in foster care and learns of her wealthy twin just as Emma’s kicked out of her last home. This first in an intriguing new series reunites long-lost twins, but only after one has been murdered.
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