- Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Avon (Nov 28 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0060577533
- ISBN-13: 978-0060577537
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.7 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,649,354 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
Book Description
A Bum Rap
At long last, fifty-something New Jersey community college professor Bel Barrett can kick back and appreciate life with a loving new husband and the kids grown and on their own. But when an angry ex-student posts a nasty hip-hop screed about her on a popular college website, Bel is devastated. In fact, the entire college is up in arms, and the situation spirals out of control when the venomous poet is discovered lying dead on the subway tracks.
Though she hasn't a single homicidal bone in her body, Bel is suddenly the cops' chief murder suspect. And with her career and her freedom on the line, this post-menopausal prof must now enter the alien world of hip-hop culture -- making unlikely friends and some very dangerous enemies in the process -- on her determined quest to clear her name and unmask a killer.
About the Author
Jane Isenberg taught English to urban community college students for close to thirty years. She has been writing mysteries ever since she experienced her first hot flash. Her copies of Modern Maturity are delivered to her new home in Amherst, Massachusetts, that she shares with her husband Phil Thompkins.
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3.2 out of 5 stars (6 customer reviews)
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fun for the over 50 crowd, Sep 30 2008
By Bunny S. "Jewish Arts & Culture" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Hot Wired: A Bel Barrett Mystery (Mass Market Paperback)
I get a kick out of this series but there has not been anything for a long time. If you are over 50, this cozy series is worth trying.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Hot Wired: A Bel Barret Mystery, Jan 18 2008
By Annette L. Smith "mamagemgirl" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Hot Wired: A Bel Barrett Mystery (Mass Market Paperback)
Fun book to read but I enjoy taking a little more time solving a crime :)
3.0 out of 5 stars
Anxiety, Jun 15 2007
By Mary E. Sibley - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Hot Wired: A Bel Barrett Mystery (Mass Market Paperback)
An online student critique is jarring to Bel Barrett's sense of self-worth. She begins to believe that her former student, Naftali Thompson, posted the hip hop verse. It seems that Naftali was wounded in Iraq. There is a piece on TV about the hip hop evaluation of Bel and then a newspaper article features Naftali.The events put Bel and her husband into an anxious state. She is accused by the college president of undermining the school. He wants Bel to retire to placate the board and the press. Next Bel's adversary becomes a dead body on the Path train tracks. It is discovered that Naftali's death may not have been accidental or self-induced.
Bel, shocked, finds herself having to give an account to the police of her actions on a previous evening. One thing she finds out when investigating the matter is that for Naftali college was strictly the idea of his older sister. Bel is told, (Bel is in disguise), that she, a college professor, got fired because she dissed Naftali. Her hip hop informant laughs at the notion of an aging white female academic being upset. The reader is made to realize here that hip hop is another sort of dialect. Bel's sense of being in criminal jeopardy is alleviated by her successful fact-finding forays.
This is a well done murder mystery in the author's HOT series.
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