This resembles Hale’s No One Else Can Have You (BCCB 1/14) in its pleasing blend of humor, mystery, and romance with a heavy side of snark. Chase was close to Coach and wants to help, so Millie and Chase hunt down leads, interrogate suspects, and put the pieces together, all while flirting, fighting, and flirting some more like the heroes of the old movies that they both adore. Drawing on her childhood memories of Nancy Drew, Millie begins her investigations to clear her dad’s name and soon finds herself entangled with Chase Albright, the rock-star quarterback with a bookworm personality whose past is shrouded in mystery. Practical-minded (read: lazy and mostly self-involved) Millie Ostermeyer would normally stay out of a school matter, but the number one suspect appears to be the assistant head coach, who also happens to be her father. Coach “Hollerin’ Hank” Kildare has no shortage of enemies at Honeywell High, so when he turns up bludgeoned to death underneath the bleachers, the suspect list is long.
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