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In Ripper by Isabel Allende, Amanda Martín, an MIT-bound high schooler, along with her online gaming group comprising her grandfather and four other globally dispersed, traumatized kids, attempt to solve real-life murders in San Francisco based on their fictional crime-solving game, Ripper, set in nineteenth-century London. When Amanda's mom, Indiana, is kidnapped by a serial killer, they race against time to save her. The story, blending mystery tropes and literary devices, navigates through character backstories and flashbacks.