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Bantam
February 2009
On Sale: January 27, 2009
304 pages
ISBN: 0385342691
EAN: 9780385342698
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In this off-the-beaten-sidewalk debut, native New Yorker Daphne Uviller reveals the secrets of a sexy, story-filled Big Apple, where a mystery lurks behind every apartment doorβand a savvy but slightly lost young woman unexpectedly finds herself holding the keys.
In a city brimming with opportunities for heroism, twenty-seven-year-old Zephyr Zuckerman has often fantasized about committing acts of bravery that would make front-page news. Now she may get her big breakβthough it may require plunging a few toilets. When the superintendent of her parentsβ Greenwich Village brownstone is led away in handcuffs, unemployed Zephyr takes over his post and unleashes her inner sleuth: discovering titillating secrets about her tenantsβfrom a smoky-voiced Frenchwoman who entertains throngs of unsavory visitors to a moody musician who just has to be hiding somethingβand realizing that her new reality is far more intriguing than her imagination.
Soon Zephyr has sussed out wrongs that stretch from losers on the Internet to art fraud and an international crime ring. The mob thinks sheβs in the FBI, and the FBI thinks sheβs in the mobβa predicament she needs to clear up fast. But perhaps not before the cute, surly exterminator helps her solve the mystery of what to do with the rest of her lifeβ¦.
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