This week, a stranger with a shadowy past has come to Sweet Valley. Is sexy poet/barista Eric a murderer on the run, or is he perhaps running from danger himself? We’re seriously spooked, which isn’t helped by the fact that the mob boss in the book happens to also be selling property on Pardo’s street. Coincidence?

Join us for a discussion of panic buttons, moral philosophies, and (yet again), troubling uses of police composites, in “The System Is Working” (Sweet Valley Super Thriller 2, On the Run).