Traci's favorite New Orleans boutique, Fleurty
Girl is a marvel to visit and she's inviting ONE lucky
reader to join her. Traci's giving away a $25 Fleurty Girl gift
card to be ready to vacation this summer!
Francesca "Franki" Amato is a tough-talking rookie cop in
Austin, Texas—until an unfortunate 911 call involving
her boyfriend, Vince, and a German female wrestler convinces
her once and for all that she just isn't cut out for a life
on the police force. So Franki makes the snap decision to
move to New Orleans to work at her friend Veronica's
detective agency, Private Chicks, Inc. But Franki's hopes
for a more stable life are soon dashed when Private Chicks
is hired by the prime suspect in a murder case to find out
what really happened to a beautiful young boutique manager
who was found strangled to death with a cheap yellow scarf.
When she's not investigating, Franki is hoping to seduce
handsome bank executive Bradley Hartmann, but most of her
time is spent dodging date offers from a string of "good
Italian boys"—make that not-so-good aging Italian
men—that her meddlesome Sicilian grandma has recruited
as marriage candidates. As Mardi Gras approaches and the
mystery of the murdered shop girl gets more complicated,
Franki must decipher the odd ramblings of a Voodoo priestess
to solve both the murder and the mystery of her own love life.