The reading is slower is month... Mid Year=Busy! Took me quite a while to finish this one. This is another one of those 'serials' and it's a murder mystery type. A tutor (Elise Freeman) for a top notch prep school was murdered and plonked into a tub full of dry ice... Dry ice is used in 2 murders in this book. The story took off from there into the intrigues and lifestyle of the rich.... and famous!
Why the deception? Turns out not all the kids who scored high on their SATs deserve those high scores. Being rich they attend not only a good prep school; with Yale, Harvard and the other Ivy Leagues in their sights, but they also could hire others to sit on their behalf. They pay smart substitutes to ace the SATs. It's a case of the haves keep getting more and the have-nots keep getting ripped off. So in the end, being able to secure a place in a famed uni does not necessarily mean that one is smart. So many other things can get one there - money, family connections. Kinda like the PLKN issue which I wrote earlier.
Rich kids, bratty life-style. Booze, drugs, girls... life on the fast lane. One begins to have to audacity to behave as though one is above the rule of law or feel that money can buy one's way out of anything. This book dwells on the darker compulsion of the human character. Sometimes rich people are seen to be doing good when they actually are not. The rich also close ranks to cover for each other. Anyway, some good detective work by the 2 main detective characters solved the case. Good triumph over evil... how nice if it's like that too in the real world. We could do with quite a bit of that now... Teoh Beng Hock, the juvenile who was shot dead and countless others...
A few more murders took place before the case was solved. This is No 19 for the year. 6 more to go to get to my target of at least 25 books this year. Oh ya! I still have 3 more 'real' books not quite read yet too. Tis a nice read, this one!
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