Synopsis
Falsely accused of murdering her father, teenage Alice must find a way to clear her name.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1997-07-01 | | Edition Description: | Reissue |
| Size | | Length: | 230 pages | | Height: | 6.8 in | | Width: | 4.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 4.0 oz |
Publisher's Note
Alice Robie's father has been murdered, and the police have an e-mail message in which Alice confesses to the crime. When her own mother suspects her, Alice has no choice but to flee in the hope of proving her innocence.
Industry Reviews
Alice Robie can't believe it when her straitlaced, divorced father calls her at his apartment and tells her to grab a certain diskette, hop into his prized Corvette and meet him outside town, as fast as she can never mind that she doesn't have a driver's license. Before she can leave, however, someone breaks in, searching for the diskette and muttering, "I killed him good." Alice outwaits the intruder, then drives off in a panic. Over the radio she hears that her father has been murdered and that she herself has supposedly written a confession. Most readers will happily trade a few key implausibilities for Cooney's (The Face on the Milk Carton) movie-popcorn-enticing blandishments: a charismatic heroine, a smoothly gossipy tone and a nonstop plot. As Alice "a nice pleasant girl who didn't butt in line, didn't write graffiti on the bathroom stall doors" adopts ruse after ruse in lightning-fast order to elude the police and the real murderer, the pace and the tension escalate fiercely. That the identity of the villain is obvious and the motivation for the crime strained won't deter readers from their rush to get to the ending. Ages 11-up. (July)
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