Susan Callisto has left her job as a Boston real estate attorney to start her own political consulting career. She has a few clients, but she struggles to pay her bills. When rich and charming Chaz Renfrow approaches her and asks her to help him win the mayoral campaign, the $20,000 retainer is just too good to be true.
Nino Biondi is Susan's client and grandfather figure. He is having problems with his landlord and his Italian temper is giving Susan a headache. Another client, Roddie Baird, is running for alderman, and has a bit of a problem playing by Susan's rules. Her new client, Chaz, brings Susan right in the middle of a murder investigation and suddenly, Susan starts receiving threats.
She is also on the outs with her boyfriend, Detective Lieutenant Michael Benedict. The murder investigation brings him back into the fold and adds to Susan's realization that her ability to size up her male clients is lacking of late. She is the recipient of their lies and her very reputation is at stake.
A CRACK IN EVERYTHING is Angela Gerst's debut Susan Callisto mystery. It is an amusing, action-filled story with headstrong characters who ensure that Susan Callisto never has a dull moment. This story is quite entertaining and a snappy setup for a series.
Politics, money, love . . . what could go wrong?
Susan Callisto is pushing thirty and taking stock. Before
she traded financial security at a Boston law firm for
sandals and jeans in Waltham, she specialized in real estate
law. Now she has reinvented herself as a political
consultant for ordinary people seeking low-level office. Her
income may be dicey, but Susan loves her new lifeβuntil her
sometime boyfriend, Detective Lieutenant Michael Benedict,
dumps her without a goodbye. Not one to mope, Susan uses
humor and perpetual motion to push away the pain.
Susan's new world is one where politics can turn deadly and
even love may not survive. So when local high roller Charles
Renfrow offers her a huge retainer to advise his political
campaign, Susan is wary. Why would a scientist stalking the
human genome want to be mayor of a small Massachusetts town?
Finding the answer takes Susan through a maze of toxic
secrets including those floating around Renfrow's biotech
company. On her way to confront him, Susan instead finds the
body of his beautiful assistant. Assigned to the case,
Michael reenters Susan's life.
When Michael's suspicions settle on Roddie Baird, yet
another, and favorite, of Susan's clients, Susan elbows her
way into the investigation. She hopes to prove Michael
wrong. As she probesβand lays her own life on the lineβSusan
uncovers a crack in everythingβ¦.
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