Roxy Abruzzo barely escaped big trouble in her first adventure, Nancy Martinβs 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 sheβs 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 Carmineβs money, taking a small percentage for her troubleβRoxy has no problem with these kinds of jobs. She can almost convince herself that theyβre not illegal. But when Marvin asks her to kidnap someone and hold her for ransom, she says no fastβitβs a felony (or a set-up), and someone might get hurt. But she canβt 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 Martinβs 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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