Review: "Nerd Lucy Solves the Crime"
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 14, 2012
Lucy Stone -- teacher of 4th grade gets sucked into an affair by her principal who uses her administrative skills to advance his education.  After a while of apparent disinterest from him, she is transferred to a lower class school to teach rowdy and rude seventh grade math students.  Worst of all, her former principal and sometimes lover, becomes engaged to her best friend.  At least, Lucy had thought of her as such.  Her new principal, Claudia Schultz is an absolute controller and belittles all of the teachers and staff ... especially Lucy.  After Christmas break, Schultz become more dissatisfied with her staff; so much so, that near the end of the day Principal Schultz is found dead. Lucy becomes a prime suspect, but is determined to find out who had murdered the much hated principal.  This is a suspenseful, fun read that moves right along.  It does remind me of the fun reads of Janet Evanovich who has many, many fans.  This first book of a series is also very well written and will keep you glued to the end.  Come on Lucy, I want to read more of your stories!