Isabel Allende--the New York Times bestselling author whose books,
including Maya's Notebook, Island Beneath the Sea, and Zorro, have
sold more than 57 million copies around the world--demonstrates her
remarkable literary versatility with Ripper, an atmospheric,
fast-paced mystery involving a brilliant teenage sleuth who must unmask
a serial killer in San Francisco.
The Jackson women, Indiana and Amanda, have always had each other. Yet,
while their bond is strong, mother and daughter are as different as
night and day. Indiana, a beautiful holistic healer, is a free-spirited
bohemian. Long divorced from Amanda's father, she's reluctant to settle
down with either of the men who want her--Alan, the wealthy scion of one
of San Francisco's elite families, and Ryan, an enigmatic, scarred
former Navy SEAL.
While her mom looks for the good in people, Amanda is fascinated by the
dark side of human nature, like her father, the SFPD's Deputy Chief of
Homicide. Brilliant and introverted, the MIT-bound high school senior is
a natural-born sleuth addicted to crime novels and Ripper, the online
mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around
the world.
When a string of strange murders occurs across the city, Amanda plunges
into her own investigation, discovering, before the police do, that the
deaths may be connected. But the case becomes all too personal when
Indiana suddenly vanishes. Could her mother's disappearance be linked to
the serial killer? Now, with her mother's life on the line, the young
detective must solve the most complex mystery she's ever faced before
it's too late.
