ROPE Book One of Rope Paper Scissors (Joe Torio Mystery)

Rope is the first of three volumes of Joe Torio Mystery #3, ROPE PAPER SCISSORS. Detective Sergeant Joe Torio, suspended from the South River Police Department, is offered a house for very little if he can tell the house's owner why her parents committed suicide. Meanwhile a cadet at Soldier Heights Military Academy appears to have accidentally caused his own death. None of the three deaths makes any sense at all, Julia asks Joe to look into the cadet's death, and he does what he can as an English teacher who doesn't much care for school.