Amanda Lester and the Purple Rainbow Puzzle by Paula Berinstein

She still has feelings for him, but he is upset with her because he thinks she has feeling for Nick Moriarity.

When Amanda has to work with her sort of ex-boyfriend, Scapulus Holmes, there is a lot of tension. Some of the dialogue was sniping and criticizing one another. They were not very nice to each other, there was some back-stabbing involving boy/girl relationships and they put themselves in a lot of danger. The character interactions in this book was one of the things that bothered me. What are they? Who is making them? Are there really pots of gold at the end of these rainbows? Will they find their friends/relatives/schoolmates who are missing? Will Legatum self-destruct or will the staff rally and come back? Who is behind the murders? There are so many questions in this book it is hard to keep track of them. Of course, they also have the purple rainbows to deal with. The school staff are mutinying and splitting of to start their own school. There are some red herrings thrown in and this time, she does not have to sneak out of school as her mission is sanctioned by the headmaster. While all this is going on, she is writing and rewriting scenes for her producer mentor Darius Plover. There are several mysteries that need solving including solving a murder, locating the 'Detective Bible', finding several missing students and of course catching the dastardly Blixus Moriarity.

She contacts her friends and they come back to help her. Amanda stays on school instead of returning to her parents or to LA to help her film idol Darius Plover at the request of Headmaster Threadkill. The story takes place at Legatum (the detective school) but it is during summer vacation. I also did not like this one as much as the first and will explain later in the review why. I read the first one, then this one and there were several spots that I read and had no idea what they were talking about as it was something from the second in the series. One thing I will say is that it is very important that you read these books in order. This is the thrid book in the Amanda Lester, Detective series.

Amanda Lester and the Purple Rainbow Puzzle by Paula Berinstein