Roxy Abruzzo barely escaped big trouble in her first
adventure, Nancy Martin’s totally charming series debut,
Foxy Roxy. Now Roxy is determined to stay on the straight
and narrow. . .except that with Sage, her daughter, about to
start college, and the architectural salvage business she
owns slowing down in the recession, her cashflow is not so
great. So she’s been doing a few jobs here and there for her
uncle Carmine, one of the last oldtime mob bosses in
Pittsburgh, who makes requests from behind bars through his
naive lawyer Marvin Weiss. Scaring a gambler behind in his
debts, getting back Carmine’s money, taking a small
percentage for her trouble—Roxy has no problem with these
kinds of jobs. She can almost convince herself that they’re
not illegal. But when Marvin asks her to kidnap someone and
hold her for ransom, she says no fast—it’s a felony (or a
set-up), and someone might get hurt. But she can’t help
doing a little snooping around the intended victim, just in
case someone else takes the job. And then of course she
finds herself suspect number one when the woman gets killed.
Peppered as usual with Martin’s oddball cast of characters
and witty one-liners, the second Roxy Abruzzo mystery is
even more funny, more frantic, and flat out more fabulous
than the first.
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