Interview With Mattie

WHEN THE STREET IS THE CLASSROOM...DEATH IS THE TEACHER

Teacher-detective Barrett Lake is good at finding missing kids, but this time the boy's already been found--dead. And the fallout from his murder brings Barrett into the
case. Mattie, a twelve-year-old runaway, was interviewed the week before his murder by The Berkeley Word, talking frankly about drug dealers and life on the street. Now the newspaper is being blamed for his death, and an anonymous crazy is sending threatening letters to the editor.

Snooping around neighborhoods where the street children play with real guns, Barrett is looking for a shadowy killer who preys on kids. But then the killer strikes against the newspaper itself, and Barrett is sure that her name is on the A-list of an equal opportunity murderer....