Private Killer

Title:Private Killer

Author: Franklin W. Dixon

ISBN: 9781416986973

Genre: Mystery

Audience: 8-12

Series: Book Two in the Killer Mystery Trilogy (#32 of the Hardy Boys)

Summary

Frank and Joe are agents of the American Teens Against Crime (ATAC). There were a series of pranks happened in Willis Firth Academy, a boy academy. All the pranks are seemed to target Destiny, the headmaster's daughter. The mission of the Frank and Joe is to find out whose behind it. Destiny is a troublemaker. She has been kicked out by the all the school she attended before. She also made a lot of enemies in Firth too. This included Destiny ex-boyfriend, faculty, members of a student club, a secret society that no one seems to know its existence, and unknown enemies hidden somewhere. All Destiny's enemies are suspects of this case. During the investigation, Franks and Joe found out that Destiny herself might be the person behind all this.

Review 

I suggest readers to read book one of the series first before jumping into this one. I did not read book one and was confused about the characters' relationship at the beginning. The author switches narrative every chapter from Frank to Joe, and vice verse. I think this writing technique is not working for this book. I was confused and sometime forgot who is the narrator. The story itself is pretty interesting and exciting; the mystery secret society, hidden tunnels under the academy, girl enrolled in a boy school.