Fourteen-year-old sports reporters Stevie Thomas and Susan
Carol Anderson can’t cover a major sporting event without
stumbling upon a mystery. Set at the Super Bowl, COVER-UP
proves to hold their most baffling whodunit yet.

After solving the U.S. Open mystery, Stevie and Susan Carol are
offered their own television show aimed at teen sports lovers on
USTV. When some market surveys indicate that he isn’t as
popular an anchor as Susan Carol, Stevie gets fired and is replaced
with a good-looking former boy band member who knows nothing about
sports. Susan Carol is devastated and threatens to quit, though her
contract won’t allow her to make this dramatic gesture. She
can’t imagine going to the Super Bowl without Stevie. But as
luck would have it, Stevie is asked by his mentor and friend Bobby
Kelleher to help write articles for the Baltimore Herald.
Both Stevie and Susan Carol will be at the Super Bowl after
all.

When Susan Carol is at a network party, the doctor of one of the
teams, the California Dreams, revels drunkenly that the entire
offensive line failed their drug tests and shouldn’t even be
playing. Plus, to make matters worse, the team owner is fully aware
of the situation and is covering up the truth. Susan Carol
immediately informs Stevie that there is a scandal to be solved.
But how can they prove what they’ve learned, especially when
nobody wants to talk?

John Feinstein --- a regular commentator for National Public Radio
and Sporting News Radio --- has written many bestselling
sports-related books, including LAST SHOT, an Edgar Award winner.
Like his previous efforts, COVER-UP provides an almost
nonfiction-like behind-the-scenes look into another aspect of the
sports world, this time football.

If you liked Stevie and Susan Carol the first and second times
around, then you’ll enjoy watching them in their most mature
and challenging mystery yet.

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