The Mad Season (Steve Asher Mystery, 2) (Paperback)

~ Al Blanchard (Author) "I drove into the parking lot of North Middle School at seven a.m., forty minutes before my usual arrival time, but still fifteen minutes late..." (more)
Key Phrases: withholding evidence, guidance office, Bill Dumas, Lucy Wilson, Lieutenant Jenkins (more...)

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Product Description

What begins as just another day at North Middle School quickly turns into an unforgettable nightmare as faculty begin to turn up dead with letters of the alphabet carved into them. And school teacher Steve Asher is right in the thick of things, having received a strange phone call from Principal Alex Webster arranging an early morning meeting to discuss how to handle a situation. "No big deal," he'd said. But now he was dead. When Asher's best friend becomes the major suspect in the hideous crimes, Steve sets out to prove the man's innocence and unmask the killer. But is he hampering the investigation and endangering the lives of his friends as he follows the twisted trail the killer leaves behind?

The Mad Season has all of the plot twists, humor and page turning suspense the reader has come to expect from Al Blanchard the award winning author of Murder at Walden Pond and The Iscariot Conspiracy.

Product Details

• Paperback: 290 pages
• Publisher: Koenisha Pubns (June 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971875812
• ISBN-13: 978-0971875814
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,815,386 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Blanchard's books keep getting better!!, January 9, 2003

By	Dr. Rachel Geller (Newton Centre, MA USA) - See all my reviews

Once in a while a reader finds a favorite author whom he/she rushes to the store to buy the newest book solely based on the author. This has happened to me with Al Blanchard. All of his books and short stories are so wonderfully crafted that I know for sure I will enjoy and relish his tales. In his latest, Blanchard has created a mystery based on murders at a public school. The wonderful descriptions of the characters, the way sub-plots are interwoven throughout the story, and the ability in all of us to relate to our school days makes this book a must-read.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Back to School is Murder, October 23, 2002

By	David R. Surette (S. Easton, MA United States) - See all my reviews

In his second Steve Asher mystery, The Mad Season, Blanchard sharpens his craft while losing none of the charm of the first. The story is more of a whodunit than Murder at Walden Pond, but Blanchard still centers the story with his reluctant, appealing sleuth Asher. Blanchard also has a gold mine of a setting: a public school. Is there any place in the world as people intensive as a public school? They are places of shifting loyalties, lifelong friends, career long grudges... and there is a shaky hierarchy of superintendents and principals trying to impose order on a world that is intrinsically messy. Blanchard not only takes you back to school but lets you delight in the chaos.