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- Title: Love's A Crime
- Author : Joseph Redden
- Release Date : January 30, 2009
- Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 769 KB
Description
Joseph Reddens Loves A Crime is an intricately woven mystery set at a private boarding school in the country. When two boys fight for the love of a girl, the love triangle turns deadly, and students lives unravel. Eight students go into the woods. Seven return alive.Broad Meadows star basketball player Phillip Bishop had everything to live for. He was good looking and was quite a gifted athlete. His hard work not only paid off on the court, but he also scored academically. He was a leader. People respected him.
Chad McAlpin had gotten by on his looks up to this point, and probably would for years to come. His parents had enough money to send him to the prestigious old college prep school near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He had never had it really hard before. Things had always been given to him. He had always gotten his way. People had never said no to him. It came as a major shock when his girlfriend, Susan Williams, broke up with him and started dating his best friend, Phillip.
Chad felt like he couldnt win. Not only was Phillip a physical threat, athletically, he took the one person who meant the world to him. Phillip outscored, outmaneuvered and wound up with Susan.
It was no secret that the boys were mad at each other. People had seen them arguing. One winter night, students go to a dance. The weather has been unusually warm for several days, prompting some kids to go to the woods not far from campus. Susan is tired of being the source of all the tension between Chad and Phillip. She urges them to patch things up, and goes back to campus with the girls.
Chad and Phillip get into a fist fight. When Phillip falls and hits his head on a rock, Chad panics. He gets his friends Andy Winchester and Rudy Preston to help him push Phillips car off an embankment.
Detective Frank Logan is a workaholic who has spent way too many nights eating dinner at his desk lately. He is so obsessed with putting criminals behind bars, his social life is lacking. His ex-girl friend, Penny, wanders in and out of his life and gets upset that he chooses a case over her. He spends so much time dealing with criminals and life threatening situations, his grandfather says hes too afraid to call her.
He has just moved to the rural community of Townsend. It is a small town where everybody knows everybodys business. It took him a while to get used to the slower pace. In Philadelphia, he dealt with homicides on a daily basis. No one has been murdered in Townsend in quite a while. Handing out parking tickets is usually the only source of excitement. That is about to change, when someone discovers a red sports car half submerged in a stream.
When Logan arrives on the scene, it doesnt take him long to figure out that it wasnt an accident. He finds a bloody rock and evidence that a struggle occurred in the woods. Students and faculty have various reasons for lying to him:
Headmaster Jonas MacPharlan insists that it was an accident and doesnt want Logan snooping around.
Basketball Coach Ian Reynolds is obsessed with winning the state championship. Witnesses overheard him arguing with Phillip a few days before the dance.
Terry Dawson was once the star of the football field. When Phillip found out that he was involved in a drug operation on campus, he told the police and Terry wound up in jail. When he got out, he still held a grudge. Witnesses heard him threaten Phillip after a basketball game prior to the accident.
Susan is a troubled girl with secrets. She is emotionally fragile, especially after what happened to Phillip.
Michelle Martin is overprotective of her roommate Susan. On the night Phillip died, she gave Susan a sleeping pill and went back to the dance. Her friends tell Logan that she got there an hour later than she told him. He wonders why she lied about the time she got back to t