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Hot Wired: A Bel Barrett Mystery (Bel Barrett Mysteries (Avon Books)) [Mass Market Paperback]

Jane Isenberg (Author)
3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)


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Bel Barrett Mysteries (Avon Books) November 29, 2005

With a great job as a community college professor, some peace and quiet now that the kids are out of the house, and a loving new husband, it would seem Bel Barrett finally has a chance to kick back and enjoy life. But just when things seem too good to be true, trouble rears its ugly head again––this time in the form of a hateful rap that's circulating on a popular college website. In the old days, the bathroom wall was the place to air grievances for a bad grade or a pop quiz. But now Bel's learning that the internet is a lot more effective at ruining a reputation––students across the country think she's a racist and a sexist, all thanks to a vengeful rap posted on pickurprofs.com.

With a little sleuthing, Bel realizes that a former student, who dropped out, joined the army, and lost his arm fighting in Iraq, is taking out his frustrations at her expense. The wannabe rapper wants to make sure someone pays for his misfortune, and with the administration breathing down her neck, and her job in jeopardy, Bel may very well be the one. And while she's concentrating on keeping her job, and keeping her life in order, the rapping avenger turns up dead on the subway track, and all signs point to Bel as the most likely suspect. Now a middle–aged, law–abiding college professor has to find the evidence to prove she's innocent, before the decision to give one bad grade lands her in jail for a long, long time.



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About the Author

Jane Isenberg taught English to urban community college students for close to thirty years. She has been writing mysteries ever since she experienced her first hot flash. Her copies of Modern Maturity are delivered to her new home in Amherst, Massachusetts, that she shares with her husband Phil Thompkins.


Product Details

  • Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Avon (November 29, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0060577533
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060577537
  • Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,008,023 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I grew up in Passaic, New Jersey, married, moved to Connecticut, and, in 1962 began a teaching career that lasted forty years. The first seven were the hardest and moved me to write a memoir about my experiences teaching high school English in New Haven. Titled GOING BY THE BOOK, it won the James N. Britten Award for Inquiry in English Language Arts from the National Council of Teachers of English in 1996. My next thirty-three years teaching community college students in Connecticut and then New Jersey and my first hot flash drove me to write THE "M" WORD. A comic mystery, it features a menopausal community college English prof as amateur sleuth and is the first of eight novels and a shorter anthologized work that make up The Bel Barrett Mystery Series. HOT WIRED, the last novel in the series was published in 2005 by which time I had retired from teaching and moved to the Puget Sound area. I looked to my new surroundings for inspiration and soon began work on a historical mystery set in Seattle's Jewish community during the Gold Rush and in 1965.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars fun for the over 50 crowd, September 30, 2008
This review is from: Hot Wired: A Bel Barrett Mystery (Bel Barrett Mysteries (Avon Books)) (Mass Market Paperback)
I get a kick out of this series but there has not been anything for a long time. If you are over 50, this cozy series is worth trying.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Hot Wired: A Bel Barret Mystery, January 18, 2008
This review is from: Hot Wired: A Bel Barrett Mystery (Bel Barrett Mysteries (Avon Books)) (Mass Market Paperback)
Fun book to read but I enjoy taking a little more time solving a crime :)
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3.0 out of 5 stars Anxiety, June 15, 2007
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This review is from: Hot Wired: A Bel Barrett Mystery (Bel Barrett Mysteries (Avon Books)) (Mass Market Paperback)
An online student critique is jarring to Bel Barrett's sense of self-worth. She begins to believe that her former student, Naftali Thompson, posted the hip hop verse. It seems that Naftali was wounded in Iraq. There is a piece on TV about the hip hop evaluation of Bel and then a newspaper article features Naftali.

The events put Bel and her husband into an anxious state. She is accused by the college president of undermining the school. He wants Bel to retire to placate the board and the press. Next Bel's adversary becomes a dead body on the Path train tracks. It is discovered that Naftali's death may not have been accidental or self-induced.

Bel, shocked, finds herself having to give an account to the police of her actions on a previous evening. One thing she finds out when investigating the matter is that for Naftali college was strictly the idea of his older sister. Bel is told, (Bel is in disguise), that she, a college professor, got fired because she dissed Naftali. Her hip hop informant laughs at the notion of an aging white female academic being upset. The reader is made to realize here that hip hop is another sort of dialect. Bel's sense of being in criminal jeopardy is alleviated by her successful fact-finding forays.

This is a well done murder mystery in the author's HOT series.
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Jersey City, Rap Room, Olivia Durango, Marcus Thompson, New York, Good Deal, Naftali Thompson, Dick Halpern, New Jersey, Dean Stiles, Martha Salem, Sarah Woolf, Jude Lafayette, Ron Woodman, President Woodman, Sarita Singh, Faculty Senate, Hudson County Homicide, Detective Fergeson, Detective Rago, Disciplinary Committee, Mel Brooks, Melissa Dworkin, Port Authority, Board of Trustees
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