title: Extracurricular Activities (A Murder 101 Mystery)
author:  Maggie Barbieri 
description: Barbieri's in top form as she delivers a smooth sequel to her witty debut (<i>Murder 101</i>). English professor Alison Bergeron wishes she'd stop getting uninvited visits from her ex-husband, Raymond Stark, fornicator extraordinaire and fellow professor at St. Thomas, a small Catholic university north of New York City. Ray's past conquests include Alison's slutty neighbor, Terri, and St. Thomas student Kathy Miceli, whose recent murder shocked the campus. Then Alison comes home one night to find Ray's body in her kitchen, hands and feet chopped off: the slaying signature of chubby mobster Peter Miceli, Kathy's father. Peter begins stalking Alison, showing up uninvited in her house to proclaim his innocence. Alison reluctantly turns to her soon-to-be-divorced former boyfriend, Bobby Crawford, an NYPD homicide detective, for help and comfort. The plot thickens when Terri disappears, leaving Alison in charge of Trixie, a scene-stealing golden retriever who makes a gruesome discovery. Barbieri juggles romance, murder and mayhem with stark realism and disarming charm. <i>(Nov.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: Murder List
  Julie Garwood
   
  Prologue
  The first day of kindergarten at the exclusive Briarwood School was the worst day of Regan
  Hamilton Madison’s life. It was such a disaster she made up her mind never to go back.
  She had started out the day believing the new school would be wonderful. And why not? She’d
  been told so by her brothers and her mother, and she had no reason to doubt them. Seated in the back
  of her family’s limo for the ride to Briarwood, she proudly wore her new school uniform, a navy blue
  and gray plaid pleated skirt; a white blouse with mandatory pointed collar; a navy blue tie, knotted
  just like a man’s tie; and a matching gray blazer with a pretty gold emblem of the school’s initials on
  the breast pocket. Her curly hair was pinned back with school-approved, navy blue barrettes.
  Everything she wore was brand-new, including her white knee-high socks and navy blue loafers.
  Regan had thought school would be fun. For the past two years, she and nine classmates at her posh
  