Deadly Dreams (23 Shadow Street Case Files #1)

Alexa Kane, seventeen, is a senior at Stuyvesant High School in Battery Park City. Her father, Tony is a Private Investigator confined to a wheelchair after taking a bullet to the spine when he was a detective for the NYPD. Still a consultant for the NYPD, he has been asked to head up TIF (Teen Investigative Force). Alexa, who helps her father in his PI work, has become TIF's number one investigator. In Deadly Dreams, Alexa and her best friend Sadi, investigate a drug ring. Although intense and filled with suspense and mystery, 23 Shadow Street also captures and explores the importance of teenage friendship and the angst of first love.