By Lisa Scottoline
Mary DiNunzio has turn into a big-time business-getter at Rosato & affiliates. however the final individual she expects to stroll into her place of work one morning—in mile-high stilettos—is super-sexy Trish Gambone, her high-school rival. again whilst Mary was once changing into the straight-A president of the Latin membership and probably to accomplish Sainthood, Trish used to be the top suggest lady, who flunked faith and excelled at smoking within the rest room. nowadays, besides the fact that, Trish wishes support. She is scared of her live-in boyfriend, an abusive, gun-toting drug broker for the South Philly mob. Mary recollects the man from highschool, too. She had an incredible weigh down on him. Then Trish vanishes, a useless physique turns up in an alley, and Mary is plunged right into a nightmare that threatens her task, her kin, or even her existence. She is going on a one-woman campaign to unmask the killer, and at the approach unearths new love in a truly unforeseen position.
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South Philly was a small town in a big city, where everybody knew everybody else, if they weren’t first cousins. Twilight was coming on, and a coppery sun, useless as a penny, dropped behind the flat asphalt roofs. Satellite dishes and loopy TV antennae made a familiar silhouette against the darkening sky, crisscrossed with sagging phone and cable wires. Old brick rowhouses lined skinny streets parked with older cars, and blackened gum and grime pitted the sidewalks. Mare, don’t you get it? Nothin’ you’re sayin’ will work.
They said, what if they went on a vacation? ” Missy muttered, disgusted. ” Mary didn’t enlighten her. ” “Totally. ” Giulia threw up her hands, nonplussed. “They had like fifty million phones ringin’. ” Yolanda shook her head, gravely. “T’s dead, I can feel it. ” Mary’s gut tightened, but she knew enough not to ask anybody from South Philly about their dreams. She wanted to finish today. ” “We didn’t have to call. We all work there. T got us our jobs. 54 LISA SCOT TOLINE She didn’t show up today, and we didn’t either.
Tell me, how’s Angie? ” “She’s still in Tunisia. ” Mary asked, suddenly missing her sister, a stab of longing like a phantom pain. “She’ll be back in three months, the letter said. ” Her father leaned over, his elbows on the table. “Hey, what did Bernice say? ” Oops. “I forgot. I’m sorry. ” “It’s okay, Mare. ” It got Mary thinking. ” “From high school? ” Mary hadn’t heard the term in years. “She was in my office today. ” “That, I heard from Jimmy Pete. He said the wiseguy is that kid you used to teach.