Helen Hath No Fury: An Amanda Pepper Mystery - Hardcover

Roberts, Gillian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345429338 ISBN 13: 9780345429339

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2000

Synopsis

When Helen Coulter, a member of Philadelphia teacher Amanda Pepper's beloved book discussion group, apparently commits suicide after a tumultuous group meeting, Amanda becomes suspicious and investigates hidden aspects of Helen's life, finding evidence of a possible murder.

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About the Author:

Gillian Roberts is the nom de mystère of mainstream novelist Judith Greber. Winner of the Anthony Award for Best First Mystery for Caught Dead in Philadelphia, she is also the author of Philly Stakes, I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia, With Friends Like These . . . , How I Spent My Summer Vacation, In the Dead of Summer, The Mummers' Curse, The Bluest Blood, and Adam and Evil. Formerly an English teacher in Philadelphia, Gillian Roberts now lives in California.

From the Inside Flap:

e stately nineteenth-century homes on Philadelphia's Delancy Street, the wilder passions scarcely ruffle the peace. Murder is unimaginable, particularly a murder involving an upscale book discussion group, of which schoolteacher Amanda Pepper is a devoted member.

Nevertheless, on the day after a heated discussion of a fictional heroine's suicide, book group member Helen Coulter falls to her death from her roof garden. Helen's death is declared a suicide—a shocking end to a perfect life—but Amanda is skeptical. In the course of recording the group's memories of Helen, inconsistencies and questions arise—and Amanda becomes convinced that Helen Coulter did not take her own life.

Why is this admirable woman dead? And if she was killed, who performed the heinous act? Helen's life was not an open book, but somewhere among its startling subplots Amanda believes she'll find the answers. Amanda's investigations will draw her into a zone of great danger, where Helen C

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0345429338
• ISBN 13: 9780345429339
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228