Amateur Theatricals — Anne Louise Bannon

The stage is set for a major undercover operationThree students have been murdered on a university campus in Kansas. Sid Hackbirn, Lisa Wycherly, and their son Nick Flaherty are sent in as the Devereaux family to find the killer. The local police can't know that the three students were also KGB moles finishing their training to assimilate into American society.Lisa poses as a theatre student to protect the KGB operative overseeing the student moles. Sid takes on teaching history to coordinate with the rest of their team. Between faculty politics, Sid's chauvinistic colleagues, and Lisa and Nick getting cast in a production of Shakespeare's Richard III, there are plenty of suspects and little time to check them out. With the help of their teammates, Sid and Lisa take on one of their most challenging cases yet.