Anthony Award winner for Best First Mystery Novel -- the debut of the Philadelphia-set Amanda Pepper series. Amanda Pepper, English teacher at Philly Prep, does not hate her life. But when a fellow teacher who's engaged to a senate candidate, begs for rest on Amanda's couch, then dies, things could be better. Then the police suspect her of murder, she begins her own investigation, and ends by teaching a certain blue-eyed cop a thing or two.... "Gillian Roberts is a mystery reader's dream come true." Lia Matera