Few stories captured the public’s imagination in the year 2,000 like the friendly rivalry between the Teen Detectives of Edgar Mills, Massachusetts. Twin sisters Alice and Samantha VanDyne were thrust in the spotlight when they helped their father Sheriff Bill VanDyne identify and track down a slippery drug smuggling ring. Across town, introverted and bookish Joey O’Day proved himself to be a talented investigator of a different sort when he used his computer skills and idiosyncratic mind to expose an online grifter. The fact that Edgar Mills had not one, but two sets of teenage sleuths did not escape the notice of the press. Soon they were a sensation, appearing on talk shows and the covers of teen magazines. Then when a series of brutal murders rocked Edgar Mills, a deadly miscalculation on the part of the VanDyne twins led to the shocking and gruesome deaths of their father, Sheriff VanDyne, and Alice’s boyfriend. The killer, Bruce Phillip Kershaw--better known as The Janitor--was ultimately captured with the help of Joey O’Day, but Edgar Mills would never be the same. It’s been a quarter century since The Janitor terrorized Edgar Mills, and the Teen Detectives have Scattered: Sam to Los Angeles and a life as a B List reality TV star, and Joey to a lucrative tech career in Boston. Alice, on the other hand, still lives in Edgar Mills, her guilt and heartbreak having taken root. When Edgar Mills is shaken by a new murder that appears to follow The Janitor’s MO, Bruce Phillip Kershaw offers--from his maximum-security prison cell--to provide new information that might help crack the case. The catch? He’ll only talk to the Teen Detectives that put him away.
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