The Sixes in Crazy Challenge Connection

Dec 15, 2011 Anne (Booklady) Molinarolo rated it really liked it

Shelves: thriller-mystery, thriller-suspense, good-fiction, permanent-library, summer-2012

4.5 Stars

Disgraced celebrity biographer Phoebe Hall is teaching at the small private college in upstate Pennsylvania. She is grateful to Lyle College President, Glenda Johns. Not only is Glenda her best friend, but she was her boarding school roommate until Fortuna. Phoebe has been falsely accused of plagiarism. Her long time boyfriend abruptly ends their relationship. All Phoebe wants is too keep her head down and think about what she will write next. But when a young woman goes missing and Gl 4.5 Stars

Disgraced celebrity biographer Phoebe Hall is teaching at the small private college in upstate Pennsylvania. She is grateful to Lyle College President, Glenda Johns. Not only is Glenda her best friend, but she was her boarding school roommate until Fortuna. Phoebe has been falsely accused of plagiarism. Her long time boyfriend abruptly ends their relationship. All Phoebe wants is too keep her head down and think about what she will write next. But when a young woman goes missing and Glenda tells her that she believes a secret society of girls called The Sixes may be involved with the coed’s disappearance, Phoebe launches her own investigation.

When Lily Mack’s body is discovered in the river by the Lyle’s bike path, Phoebe learns other students have gone missing. One almost drowned a year before Lily. The Sixes have left her blood running cold by the gifts they’ve sent her. And Lily could have been a member. But could the group be totally out of control that they have moved from mean and hateful pranks to out right murder? Or is there a serial killer on campus? Lyle’s police detectives are keeping information close to their vests, whereas Campus Chief Ball is almost dismissive of both theories. One thing is for sure, someone doesn’t want Phoebe poking around and what happened to her at boarding school starts anew now 25 years later. And Phoebe fears she may not survive this time. She has good reason to be afraid.

The plot snakes this way, then that way, then another way. I have to admit I was surprised at the who-dun-its. Phoebe Hall is a very likable and well developed character. Glenda Johns is slightly less developed and that was sad, since she is the first African-American College President and a working wife and mother. The pace and storylines are taut and suspenseful. Phoebe’s love interest doesn’t get in the way, in fact, it adds to the suspense. The Psychology Professor has his own secrets. Red herrings flow in THE SIXES and are not just placed here and there just to confuse the reader, each has its own purpose. Kate White writes remarkably well and I will seek her books out.
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