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Title details for Ripper by Isabel Allende - Available

Ripper

by Isabel Allende
Edoardo Ballerini
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The Ripper players, free from any moral and legal restraints, are free to pursue any line of enquiry to solve the cases that the police cannot. It is just a game. As their unique power leads them ever closer to the truth of their latest case, one of the players, Amanda's, mother suddenly vanishes. Could her disappearance be linked to the serial killer? And will Amanda and her accomplices solve the mystery before it's too late?

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  • Release date

    August 1, 2014

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780007569427
      • File size: 416856 KB
      • Duration: 14:28:26

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 23, 2013
      Bestseller Allende (The House of the Spirits) successfully tries her hand at a mystery, which features an unlikely team of sleuths united by an online mystery game named after the infamous Whitechapel murderer. High school senior Amanda Martín is the games master for a group that includes her grandfather, Blake Jackson; a wheelchair-bound New Zealand boy with the online persona of a Gypsy girl named Esmeralda; and a 13-year-old boy with a high IQ who calls himself Sherlock Holmes. Amanda persuades her cohorts to investigate real-life crimes in 2012 San Francisco, starting with the murder of Ed Staton, a school security guard. A month earlier, Amanda's astrologer godmother predicted that San Francisco would suffer a bloodbath. The prophecy seems more credible when other murders follow Staton's. While this genre outing isn't as memorable as the author's more groundbreaking fiction, her facility with plotting and pacing will keep readers turning the pages. 7-city author tour. Agent: Carmen Balcells, Carmen Balcells Agency.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Edoardo Ballerini gives an impeccable performance of Isabel Allende's excursion into contemporary crime fiction. Teenager Amanda searches for connections among a series of hideous real-world murders with the help of her grandfather, Blake, and a group of Internet gamers playing a mystery game called Ripper. Ballerini makes individuals of each of Amanda's fellow online players, including Esmeralda, a boy from New Zealand who's in a wheelchair, and a boy genius who uses--of course--Sherlock Holmes as his persona. Other intriguing characters include Amanda's divorced parents--her mother, Indiana, a shamanistic healer, and her father, a homicide detective--as well as two of her mother's suitors, wealthy, intense Alan and Ryan, a former Navy SEAL. As Amanda obsesses over each grisly killing, Ballerini provides first-rate listening. S.J.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine

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  • English

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