Special Topics in Calamity Physics

She found her teacher dead - hanging by a piece of electrical cord. The North Carolina police think it was suicide. Her former friends - the Bluebloods - blame her for being there. And her father tells her to leave it alone. But Blue van Meer is a student of books and can't let a mystery go. Because all her life puzzles both complicated and intricate have littered her path - her mother's death in a car crash; a childhood spent roaming from town to town; her dad's serial affairs. Are these fantasies of a teenager too lonely or too clever for her own good? Or has Blue stumbled on something so dark, so devious, that her world is about to be flipped upside down?