Friendship, Contemporary, United States, Women Sleuths, Cozy, Amateur Sleuths 

Heather Wells Rocks! Or, at least, she did. That was before she left the pop-idol life behind after she gained a dress size or two, and lost a boyfriend, a recording contract, and her life savings (when Mom took the money and ran off to Argentina). Now that the glamour and glory days of endless mall appearances are in the past, Heather's perfectly happy with her new size 12 shape (the average for the American woman!) and her new job as an assistant dorm director at one of New York's top colleges. That is, until the dead body of a female student from Heather's residence hall is discovered at the bottom of an elevator shaft. The cops and the college president are ready to chalk the death off as an accident, the result of reckless youthful mischief. But Heather knows teenage girls and girls do not elevator surf. Yet no one wants to listen, not the police, her colleagues, or the P.I. who owns the brownstone where she lives, even when more students start turning up dead in equally ordinary and subtly sinister ways. So Heather makes the decision to take on yet another new career: as spunky girl detective! But her new job comes with few benefits, no cheering crowds, and lots of liabilities, some of them potentially fatal. And nothing ticks off a killer more than a portly ex-pop star who's sticking her nose where it doesn't belong.  

Genre/Form: College stories
Mystery fiction
Detective and mystery fiction
Fiction
Detective and mystery stories
Named Person: Heather Wells, (Fictitious character); Heather Wells, (Fictitious character)
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Meg Cabot
ISBN: 9780060525118 0060525118
OCLC Number: 60651007
Language Note: In English.
Description: 345 pages ; 21 cm
Series Title: Heather Wells Mysteries, Bk 1.
Other Titles: Size twelve is not fat
Responsibility: Meg Cabot.