title: Mummers' Curse (Amanda Pepper Mysteries)
author:  Gillian Roberts 
description: Amanda Pepper, the Philadelphia English teacher is a crack-up . . . always getting caught up in a crime. Whether she is in the classroom, on vacation, or just hanging out at home, she always finds time to solve a mystery. I like Roberts's characters (Amanda herself, her boyfriend C.K., her mother, and her friend Sasha) so much that I talked a local wholesale buyer into purchasing and distributing the Amanda Pepper series to a major retail store in Southern California. The sales results were great!<br /><br />--Nanci Andersen, Ballantine Sales
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  [A Christmas Wish](026.html)
  
  
  Amanda Prowse
  
  
  Poppy raised her hands behind her head and slipped her shoulder-length hair
  into a pink scrunchie she had found nestling at the bottom of her handbag. She
  squeezed out a blob of fluorescent cleaning fluid and wiped down the work
  surface in the kitchen. Her tongue poked from the side of her mouth, as it
  always did when she was concentrating. Flipping over the sponge, she used the
  scourer to shift a little bump of spinach that had dried hard after making a
  break for freedom from the colander. What had Peg said? ‘Don’t eat it, Maxy,
  it’s not real food, it’s like grass!’
  
  
  She cast her eye