Shooting gun wielding tax crooks, not a problem! Keeping the weight off her butt while on stakeout duty; this is getting to be a serious issue. Agent Tara Holloway just might have to bite the bullet and give up her favourite: large caramel latte with extra whipped cream, lots of drizzle and cinnamon on top for skinny no-whip lattes!

Tara is bound and determined that she and her senior partner, Eddie Bardin, a straight arrow and highly intelligent agent, would get the notorious Marcos Mendoza infamous for having his business associates disappear when they were no longer deemed necessary. They knew he would not be an easy pick-up. Each of them were aware of how the dismembered body parts of Mendoza's latest associate, Andrew Sheffield, showed up in various Dumpsters and now this coldhearted beating at the bakery showed ever more of the violence that Mendoza meted out via his thugs. Could they really bring him in when so many others had failed?

With their boss Lu on their case to find some solid evidence pronto, everything in her life was getting messed up. Would Brett, her new found love, turn to others when she had to work almost non-stop? Could she really trust the whispered calls from a turncoat agent previously in the criminal Investigations Division? What would happen to them if Mendoza found out they were tailing him?

DEATH, TAXES, AND A SKINNY NO WHIP LATTE is the second book in Diane Kelly's "Death and Taxes" romantic mysteries series and is a winner! DEATH, TAXES, AND A SKINNY NO WHIP LATTE is a terrific read on its own, Kelly fans will delight in the reappearance of a number of the secondary characters, especially Christina Marquez, the sexy DEA rookie agent. There is wonderful plot and character development as Tara takes on new and nail-biting challenges while further developing Tara's life from the first book. Given that, I can't believe she barely got more than one manicure in this adventure! A witty and wily read you won't want to miss! Enjoy!