A Clare Vengel Undercover Novel: Dead Politician Society : A Clare Vengel Undercover Novel (Series #1) (Hardcover)

Publishers Weekly,Canadian author Spano takes a light approach to political murder in her awkward debut. When Toronto mayor Hayden Pritchard dies of poisoning at a benefit for working children, the previously obscure Society for Political Utopia claims responsibility and announces in an e-mail that the assassination is just the start of their campaign "to create a political utopia for the real world." In response, the police assign Clare Vengel, an officer with just three months on the job, to pose as a political science student at the local university and attend a class called, perhaps not coincidentally, "Political Utopia for the Real World," to get a lead on the mayor's killer. Vengel finds herself attracted to the instructor, Dr. Matthew Easton, despite signs implicating him in Pritchard's death. The fast ratcheting up of the body count doesn't compensate for Vengel, who's a particularly vapid lead. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved