Description Jesse is on the case when money goes missing from the library and her dad is looking like the #1 suspect in Edgar Award-winning author Susan Vaught's latest middle grade mystery. When the apocalypse came to Avery, Kentucky, Great Aunt Gustine was out getting a pedicure at Nails, Nails, Nails, Dad was teaching ninth grade English at Avery High School, and Mom was working with her bomb-sniffing dog near a place called Mosul in Iraq. The person who stole $2,103 from the high school's library fund that my father was responsible for was out spending the money, and our middle school principal, Mr. Jorgansen, was someplace he had no business being. Again. When the cops show up at Jesse's house and arrest her dad, she figures out in a hurry that he's the #1 suspect in the missing library fund money case. With the help of her (first and only) friend Springer, she investigates, but she can't shake the feeling that she isn't exactly cut out for being a crime-solving hero.