Synopsis

Everyone thinks their mother is murder but for mafia-family renegade Lucia Scafetti, that’s the literal truth.

When she laid her hitman father to rest, PI Lucia Scafetti thought she’d finally escaped her family’s criminal clutches. Ten years later, her estranged mom blows into Philly for a short visit and within days a friend’s dad is brutally murdered and Lucia is being menaced by her cousin and his fellow mafiosi. After her mother disappears, everyone: foes, friends, and free agents, descends upon Lucia in search of the thumb-drive her mom stole from a Caribbean drug lord. Lucia learns the hard way that the criminals besieging her will gladly kill to get their hands on that thumb-drive.

With the help of an intriguing ex-soldier, Lucia employs her skills, both detective and deadly, to solve the murder and unlock the secret of that enigmatic thumb-drive before it claims another life, be it her own – or that of her recently re-discovered son.

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Review

The second in this series, and we are back in Philly with Lucia unraveling another case, and managing family skeletons that are popping out of the closet.

It has been a bit since I read the first book, and this novel is approximately ten years later based on some other data such as the appearance of her mother. Technology is still not as present as you might think, but there is the addition of a thumb drive which is more current day than twenty years ago, so you will need to suspend a little bit of reality.

Lucia is still going strong with her PI business, and there is a love interest in Rene. But does he have other objectives in mind? Is he being honest with Lucia? There is a rocky start to their relationship, but will it last, especially considering they both are hiding secrets.

There is also a young man, Robbie, in this story. He is a typical college student and doesn’t think before acting. I won’t spoil why he is in the book, but it was a bit of a surprised.

I hoped that we might see her relationship with her mother become amicable, and in a way it does, but I don’t know that Lucia receives the closure she might need in that relationship.

There are quite a few Italian and mafia terms that I was not familiar with, so that slowed down my reading as I tried to figure out what they meant.

The story flows, and it is action packed keeping me engaged.

We give this book 4 paws up.

About the Author

Felicia Watson, author of the ground-breaking romance, Where the Allegheny Meets the Monongahela, and the award-winning scifi novels, The Lovelace Series, started writing stories as soon as they handed her a pencil in first grade.

When not writing, Felicia spends her time chasing after her not-so-brilliant, but darling and beloved dogs, being chased by her truly brilliant, darling, and beloved husband. She is known to friends and family as an amateur pastry chef and still finds time for swimming and her day job as a scientist.

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