Fraying friendships

Just outside London, at the Verity Lang Academy for the Performing Arts, (a famous boarding school that attracts talented students from all over the world) are six teenage friends from diverse backgrounds who form up-and-coming band Lucky Six.

There's confident English lead singer/songwriter, Laurie Hawker, her computer-whiz younger brother and bass guitarist Jack, Japanese Aimi Akita who's the band's lead guitarist (and general limelight-stealer), hard-working American student Marybeth Fellows on keyboard, dopey but lovable American Noah Hansen on drums and sharp-witted French student, backing singer and band manager Elle Beaumont.After solving their first case, Lucky Six get a taste for sleuthing and put their teamwork skills to the test time and time again as they solve a range of exciting mysteries."Fraying Friendships" (ISBN/Barcode: 978 1 4052 3946 2): A craze for Opus, the latest in networking web sites, is sweeping The Verity Lang Academy.

When someone takes advantage of this to start stirring up trouble between the pupils, Lucky Six decide to find out exactly who's causing everyone's friendships to unravel.