To make matters worse, the owner of the Dreams is fully aware and is trying to cover it up. If this is true, then the players would be suspended for the big game.

At a party, Susan finds out from a drunk team doctor that the entire offensive line for his Los Angeles Dreams have failed a drug test. This time, they tackle a controversy at the world's most watched event - the Super Bowl. In the past two books, they survived a blackmail scandal at the Final Four and a kidnapping at the US Open. It seems like trouble follows Susan and Stevie everywhere they go. Although Stevie and Susan are separated, they will meet back up at the Super Bowl - Stevie joins a local newspaper and will cover the game for them. Not long after, the network replaces Stevie with an older, better looking male anchor. This time, the two 14 year-olds become co-anchors on a sports TV show for teenagers. Can they work their magic again when a scandal erupts at the Super Bowl?Ĭover Up is the final installment of author John Feinstein's trilogy of Stevie and Susan's adventures in solving sports mysteries. But for some reason, they always end up becoming detectives instead! Together they have solved crimes at the Final Four and the US Open. Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol are sports writers. This was written by John Feinstein and is the last installment of his two previous books: Vanishing Act and the Last Shot. (Feb.)įYI: The novel's final page announces a sports-oriented writing contest, the winner of which will receive a trip to the 2005 NCAA men's Final Four championship game.Kidzworld has a book review of Cover Up: Mystery at the Super Bowl. Young basketball fans will most appreciate the caper, but mystery buffs will also turn these pages eagerly. The minimal on-court action is nonetheless dramatic and briskly paced. As Stevie and Susan Carol team up with Chip to uncover the intricacies of the blackmail plan-and to try to foil it-the author's plotting entails some fancy footwork that will keep readers on their toes. Though they can't see the culprit during this conversation, it takes the youngsters no time at all to identify him as a member of MSU's faculty-ironically, an ethics professor. Yet the pace picks up when Feinstein casts the two aspiring young sports journalists in additional roles of sleuths: the pair overhears a man blackmailing Chip Graber, the star player (and son of the coach) of the Minnesota State team to throw the championship game against Duke. The story starts slowly with some superfluous dialogue and a surfeit of detail about specific players, coaches, sports writers and announcers. Taking center court is 13-year-old Stevie, who-along with Susan Carol, another eighth grader-landed tickets and press passes to the weekend's games by winning a writing contest sponsored by the U.S. ) novel set during a Final Four basketball tournament in New Orleans. Sports and mystery get equal play in sportswriter and adult author Feinstein's ( A Season on the Brink

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