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Barrett Lake Mystery #4
Interview with Mattie
When the street is the classroom...death is the teacher
Teacher-detective Barrett Lake is good at finding missing kids, but this time the boy’s already been found—dead. And the fallout from his murder brings Barrett into the case. Mattie, a twelve-year-old runaway, was interviewed the week before his murder by The Berkeley Word, talking frankly about drug dealers and life on the street. Now the newspaper is being blamed for his death, and an anonymous crazy is sending threatening letters to the editor.
Snooping around neighborhoods where the street children play with real guns, Barrett is looking for a shadowy killer who preys on kids. But then the killer strikes against the newspaper itself, and Barrett is sure that her name is on the A-list of an equal opportunity murderer....
Teacher-detective Barrett Lake is good at finding missing kids, but this time the boy’s already been found—dead. And the fallout from his murder brings Barrett into the case. Mattie, a twelve-year-old runaway, was interviewed the week before his murder by The Berkeley Word, talking frankly about drug dealers and life on the street. Now the newspaper is being blamed for his death, and an anonymous crazy is sending threatening letters to the editor.
Snooping around neighborhoods where the street children play with real guns, Barrett is looking for a shadowy killer who preys on kids. But then the killer strikes against the newspaper itself, and Barrett is sure that her name is on the A-list of an equal opportunity murderer....
285 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published September 1, 1995
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About the author
Shelley Singer
31 books18 followersAka Lee Singer.
Shelley Singer is the author of a dozen published novels and many short stories. One of her mysteries was nominated for the prestigious Shamus Award of the Private Eye Writers of America. She has written mysteries, science fiction, and mainstream fiction. Singer began her working life as a reporter with UPI in Chicago. During a checkered and mercifully brief journalism career, she met such luminaries as Nikita Khrushchev, Jimmy Hoffa, Xavier Cugat, Mrs. Billy Graham, Martin Luther King, Jr., and a condemned killer on death row. She never met Joseph Stalin. She teaches fiction writing classes and does manuscript consulting.
Shelley Singer is the author of a dozen published novels and many short stories. One of her mysteries was nominated for the prestigious Shamus Award of the Private Eye Writers of America. She has written mysteries, science fiction, and mainstream fiction. Singer began her working life as a reporter with UPI in Chicago. During a checkered and mercifully brief journalism career, she met such luminaries as Nikita Khrushchev, Jimmy Hoffa, Xavier Cugat, Mrs. Billy Graham, Martin Luther King, Jr., and a condemned killer on death row. She never met Joseph Stalin. She teaches fiction writing classes and does manuscript consulting.
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June 11, 2011
I really enjoy this series by Singer, but I found this to be the least effective of the books, and I'm not quite sure why.It might be disappointment with the outcome more than anything else.
January 22, 2014
Investigation into death of boy about whom a newspaper had run a feature.
Tough in the streets.
Good.
Tough in the streets.
Good.
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January 26, 2019Synopsis: an alternative newspaper runs an interview with Mattie, a 12-year-old homeless boy. When he turns up dead, Barrett must find the murderer.
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