Angelica’s twelve – and no angel, as she says herself.
But does she deserve this crazy situation?
Why? Why? Why?
she punches on the keys of the computer.
Why has Dad gone? Why has Mum flipped her lid?
And why does that dog howl every night?
Doesn’t anyone care?

In Thriller and Me, Angelica sets off with Beth and try-hard Max to find out the truth. She learns heaps: about the RSPCA, back lanes, computers, gays, writing. She realises that understanding is as about as close to the truth as you can can get. And that nobody’s an angel.

Merrilee Moss is fifty going on fourteen. She lives by the river with a black-and-white kelpie and a half-bassett, half labrador hound. She loves dogs and hates cruelty to animals. She also loves writing, theatre, dancing, cafe latte, pasta, movies and almost everything Italian. She teaches performance writing at Victoria University and works part-time for the Lesbian and Gay switchboard, a telephone crisis line in Melbourne. When she wants to concentrate on a writing project, she disappears to a beach house at Inverloch. She has had four plays produced, including Empty Suitcases and Over the Hill, and has published ten novels for teenagers, including the Hot Pursuit series. Her forthcoming novel Fedora Walks is published by Spinifex Press.