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Thirty years ago in a mass communications class at Arizona State University, Vickie
Chachere and Cindy Pearlman sat down next to each other and have been best friends
ever since.
The authors – Cindy (C.L. – left), a well-known entertainment industry journalist and
Vickie (V.C. – right), a veteran newsperson – share a fascination with the drama that
is real life, as well as the unique perspective that strong women and girls bring to the
world.
After all those years of almost daily calls, incalculable shopping trips, husbands, kids,
and more shoes than they will ever admit to owning, they now hope to revive the girl
detective series. The duo has created a work that is a tribute to the life lesson they
learned so well: The stranger sitting next to you might just be one of the greatest
treasures fate will ever hand you. Oh, and never – ever – underestimate a nosy girl.
Who Is Jex?
She’s a 16-year-old, New Jersey native forced to spend summers with the homicide
detective father she barely knows. A self-absorbed lawman who works the Vegas strip,
John Malone knows how to bust criminals, but he’s in “officer needs assistance” mode
when it comes to having a real relationship with his daughter.
Now that Jex is older, he’s finally enforcing a court order that mandates that his
daughter spend the all of her summers with him until she is of age. For Jex, it’s like being
sent to a lockup.
Anticipating this will be the worst summer of her entire life, she arrives in scorching hot
Nevada and meets three equally bored-to-death 16-year-old girls in the neighborhood.
Looking for something to amuse themselves, they dig into Det. Malone’s cold case
files…and hello, vanished girl who lived around the corner once upon a time ago.
It was 13years ago when a teenager named Patty, a girl with dark secrets, disappeared
into thin air on a hot summer night. Jex and her friends decide to pursue the case
despite a trail of evidence that puts them at risk of becoming victims themselves.
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