Sammy Keyes and the Dead Giveaway

Wendelin Van Draanen

Jan 2006 · Sammy Keyes Book 10 · Live Oak Media · Narrated by Tara Sands

About this audiobook

The tenth mystery in the popular Sammy Keyes series offers more spirit and adventure than ever! Sammy accidentally makes a deadly mistake, but all clues point to her nemesis Heather, and she gets blamed. As Sammy struggles with her conscience – she should confess, but there’s a certain justice in Heather finally getting what she deserves – she gets distracted helping an ailing senior citizen in her fight against urban renewal. There’s a local council member who seems to be on both sides of the issue, and neighborhood vandalism that could be a clue to what’s really at stake. While Sammy’s trying to sort out those truths, her own haunt her, along with her feelings for Casey, Heather’s brother, who she’s agreed to attend the Farewell Dance with on a “non-date.”

About the author

Wendelin Van Draanen was born on January 6, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois. She is the daughter of chemists who emigrated from Holland. She worked as a math teacher and then as a computer science teacher before becoming an author. Wendelin Van Draanen began her writing career with a screenplay and soon switched to adult novels and then children's books. She is best known for her Sammy Keyes series of novels, which she started writing in 1997, featuring a teenage detective named Samantha Keyes. Her popular Sammy Keyes series had been nominated four times for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Children's Mystery and won with "Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief". Her Shredderman series also yielded a Christopher Medal for Secret Identity. She has also written several novels such as: How I Survived Being a Girl and Flipped.