Vanishing Act (Robin Light #5)

By Barbara Block

Subjects: Pet shops, Women detectives, Fiction, Robin Light (Fictitious character)

Description: Library Journal ranks Barbara Block's intrepid amateur sleuth Robin Light, "right up there with the tough-guy detectives". Now, this pet store owner and part-time crime solver returns to track a missing college girl, only to be taught a deadly lesson: that the dangers of higher education can often be triggered by the lowest of human instincts.In her fifth outing, Robin is hired by Bryan Hayes to find his sister Melissa, a college sophomore who waved goodbye outside her dorm and disappeared without a trace. Everyone from the University's head of security to the dean and the police have their theories about Melissa's disappearance, but Robin is developing one of her own. If Melissa Hayes met with foul play, why did she take her clothes, her purse, and her cash? Why is her boyfriend so reluctant to talk? And why does Jill Evans, Melissa's best friend and fatal victim of a bizarre accident, keep figuring into the picture? Combing the campus for clues, Robin has suddenly found herself moving to the head of the class...and closer to the most challenging mystery of her career.