Purchase

Amazon

Add to Wish List

Also by Sandra Scoppettone:

Too Darn Hot, June 2006
Hardcover

TOO DARN HOT
By: Sandra Scoppettone

Ballantine
June 2006
Featuring: Faye Quick
288 pages
ISBN: 0345478126
Hardcover
Add to Wish List

Mystery Historical | Mystery Amateur Sleuth | Mystery Woman Sleuth

I’d had two murders since last spring, solved them both. The first one was prime and it got a lotta attention in the fish wrappers, so I had a bunch of clients for awhile. Just cause people saw my name in the paper they figured I was the best (which I might be). Not bad for a 26-year-old gal from Newark, New Jersey.

It’s the middle of World War II, but not all the killing is happening overseas. In a sweltering New York City summer, scrappy steno-turned-sleuth Faye Quick – kicked upstairs when her boss ships out – takes on a new case that would make even the most experienced P.I. sweat bullets.

It all starts with a beautiful woman. Heartbroken Claire Turner turns on the waterworks in Faye’s office, begging for help in finding her beau, Private Charlie Ladd, gone missing while on leave from Uncle Sam’s army. But when Faye busts into Charlie’s hotel room, she doesn’t find anyone – anyone alive, that is.

But where’s Charlie? Because the corpse in the hotel room might not be him. And that leads Faye to wonder if the unfortunate stiff was Charlie’s target practice.

In a case with more twists, starts, and stops than the Third Avenue El, Faye learns that some shocking truths are hidden behind the fog of war – a personal war being fought on the home front.