The Headmaster's Wife: A Gregor Demarkian Novel (Gregor Demarkian Novels)

Mark DeAvecca is a brilliant fifteen-year-old in his first year at the exclusive private academy, Windsor School. Mark, the son of noted commentator Liz Tolliver, grew up in very different circumstances and could not fit in less well. With its hundred-year-old history, Windsor is rife with tradition, nasty rumors, petty jealousies and long buried resentments. The most savage of those unpleasant undercurrents swirl around the headmaster's wife - currently rumored, with good reason, to be having an affair with Mark's roommate, a street-tough scholarship student. Mark, however, has his own problems - he feels himself slowly losing his grip on reality and the staff widely believes him to be just another prep school burnout headed for an unpleasant end. So when Mark returns from a late-winter ramble about the campus to find his roommate dead, hanging from the ceiling of their room, he's reached the end of his own metaphorical rope. Even though he's no longer sure about...

in The Tradition Of P.d. James, Jane Haddam's Novels Combine Compelling Story Lines With A Keen-eyed, Complex Sense Of The Character's Psychology And Sharp, Evocative Sense Of Place…

the Headmaster's Wife

windsor Academy Ranks As One Of The Best New England Prep Schools Money Can Buy. From Its Gothic Arches To Its Ethnic Diversity, It Looks Picture Perfect...as Long As Nobody Notices That The Headmaster's Wife Has A Student Lover And Drugs Are As Available As Candy. And When Freshman Mark Deavecca Looks Out A Faux Medieval Window And Sees A Body Across The Campus, He Wonders If He's Hallucinating—especially When No Corpse Is Found. Since Everyone Thinks That Mark Is A Druggie, They All Ignore Him—until He Returns To His Dorm Room To Discover His Roommate Dead, Hanged By The Neck From The Ceiling.

desperate, Mark Calls His Mother's Friend Gregor Demarkian, Former Fbi Agent And The One Person Mark Knows Will Listen. Demarkian Is World-weary And Ready To Retire From His Investigative Career, Yet He Can't Turn Down A Plea From A Scared Kid. And It Doesn't Take Long Before Gregor Knows Something Is Very Wrong At Windsor Academy...something Like Manipulation, Dirty Tricks, And Murder.

compelling...campus Politics And Intrigue Intermingle With Sex, Suicide And Possibly Murder In Haddam's Searing 20th Gregor Demarkian Mystery.

—publishers Weekly starred Review

intelligently Written…masterful.

—indianapolis Star

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suspicion Falls On An Unstable Prep School Student Who Finds His Roommate (rumored To Have Been Having An Affair With The Headmaster's Wife) Hanged In Their Room. The Suspect's Famous Mom Hires Retired Fbi Agent Demarkian (conspiracy Theory) To Look Into The Matter. The Latest In A Solid Series. Haddam Lives In Connecticut. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Later, Mark DeAvecca would say that he could see the body from the moment he first looked out the narrow arched Gothic window at the north end of the Ridenour Library's narrow catwalkhe could see it lying there, on the snow, under the stand of evergreens near the pond. Accused of murdering his prep-school roommate, who has been found dead amid rumors of an affair with the headmaster's wife, Mark DeAvica receives assistance from retired FBI agent Gregor Demarkian in a case more complex than either of them suspects When a teenage student is found hanging in his room after rumors circulate about his illicit affair with the headmaster's wife, retired FBI agent Gregor Demarkian is called in on behalf of the boy's roommate to investigate the death