Searching for Sara — Shelley Singer

THE COURSE IS SURVIVAL...THE EXAM IS MURDER

Finding the missing teen hadn't been as hard as Barrett Lake expected. Sara was in San Francisco's Tenderloin district, learning about life the hard way from the bottom up. The good news was she had turned up at a runaway shelter. The bad news was she had gotten mixed up in murder.

Teaching history at Berkeley Technical High gave Barrett the edge on being an investigator. She could spot a kid lying, cheating, or stealing, with her eyes closed. She also knew when a kid was hurting. Sara was doing all those things, yet the feisty, spike-haired blonde didn't seem to be a killer. Neither did her new friends, Geoffrey, the svelte transvestite, or silent, suicidal William. But someone had shot a shelter worker, and if flying bullets were a clue, Barrett herself was the next target. Now Barrett needed to uncover the secrets of the lost kids who felt the streets were safer than home ... and discover who had crossed the line to the dark side where innocence died and murder dwelled.