A new series of YA mysteries featuring teenaged sleuths, Amanda Hart and Mick Soul. In Kill the Story, the pair expose a blackmail/shoplifting operation in one of the sororities at Amanda's trendy private high school. In Play Dead, Amanda and her friends become part of a professional theater company in order to solve an attempted murder.

When Amanda and her best friend, Pepper, receive a call for help from a schoolmate in a play, they rush to the rescue. Accidents have been plaguing the cast, and with Amanda filling in a for a small part, Pepper acting as a dresser and Mick signing on as stagecrew, Hart & Soul tackle backstage intrigue.

Amanda Hart's seventeenth birthday brings nothing but trouble when she is tormented by a series of threatening telephone calls, and Mick Soul may be her only hope

Why anyone would steal Pepper Larson's photographs, entered in the "Picture the City" contest, is a mystery to her and her best friend, Amanda Hart. And they can't understand what there is about the pictures that would make the thieves trash the Spectator's darkroom and break into Pepper's house. But Amanda knows one thing for They've got to get to Mick. They need to find out what's going on-and before someone gets them out of the pictuer, permanently.

Mick Soul goes undercover as a deejay at Gator's, a new teen club, to investigate a series of suspicious fires and other incidents that lead Amanda Hart to believe that someone is out to shut down the club

"Shut it down by midnight Thursday or we'll shut you down-permanently." When Mick is attacked by two thugs who want his messenger service closed down for good, he knows he has to figure out why...and fast. That's when he asks Mandy to go undercover as Fleet Street's newest bicycle messenger. But Mick and Mandy are in for the surprise of their lives when Mandy makes a special delivery in the worst kind of traffic: drugs. And soon it's obvious that someone is determined to make this deliver their last.

Amanda Hart knows that it's not unusual to hear terrified screams coming from a carnival fun house. But when the frightened teenager she sees at Harry Bright's House of Fear turns up dead, she can't help wondering if the girl was scared of more than just the ride. To satisfy Mandy's growing suspicions, Hart and Soul go undercover. Mandy and Mick, as Bright's two newest employees, find out that carnival life is much more than fun and games-it's murder!

It looks like Amanda Hart is about to get her lucky break: an editor at the prestigious San Francisco Chronicle wants her to cover the twentieth anniversary convention of the Model League of Nations. This could be the hottest story around. But Mandy doesn't know the half of it. Someone is sending death threats to the delegates running for office. And before the weekend is through the students will be running scared, while Mandy and Mick become a potential killer's newest targets!