For Beretta or Worse
The Third Annabelle Starkey Mystery
Annabelle Starkey is at it again. This time the funny, movie-crazed sleuth has finally got P.I. cred as a full-edged partner in Asta Investigations. She’s teamed up with her stalwart fiancé, Mickey Paxton, and their dauntless friend, Luis Maldonado, in New York City.
When she urges her partners to accept a case from the wholly unlikeable, self-absorbed, mega-rich Beverly Musgrave, they agree, only if Annabelle takes the lead. Musgrave is convinced her ex-husband is tormenting her by stealing her jewelry and battering her car, but as the investigation proceeds, the detectives find no evidence to support her claims—until she ends up dead.
A bevy of suspects emerges beyond the obvious ex. First an estranged son, who insists his mother loved him even though she cut him off, followed by a stepson, a seemingly cultured upper-crusty sort who is the apple of his father’s eye. A jilted lover and his daughter add to the confounding list, and developing clues seem only to send Annabelle and her partners down another rabbit hole with no exit.
As if this case weren’t chaotic enough, Annabelle’s beloved parents arrive to help plan their daughter’s wedding, an abandoned dog adopts the family, and a violent intruder blows in, looking to square some baffling dispute with partner Luis.
Coming into her own as a P.I., Annabelle learns that her quick wit, high energy, and indefatigable spirit go a long way in finding the answers—from exposing murderers to organizing a wedding—and that a Beretta can sometimes help . . . or not.
Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5; Pages: 234
When she urges her partners to accept a case from the wholly unlikeable, self-absorbed, mega-rich Beverly Musgrave, they agree, only if Annabelle takes the lead. Musgrave is convinced her ex-husband is tormenting her by stealing her jewelry and battering her car, but as the investigation proceeds, the detectives find no evidence to support her claims—until she ends up dead.
A bevy of suspects emerges beyond the obvious ex. First an estranged son, who insists his mother loved him even though she cut him off, followed by a stepson, a seemingly cultured upper-crusty sort who is the apple of his father’s eye. A jilted lover and his daughter add to the confounding list, and developing clues seem only to send Annabelle and her partners down another rabbit hole with no exit.
As if this case weren’t chaotic enough, Annabelle’s beloved parents arrive to help plan their daughter’s wedding, an abandoned dog adopts the family, and a violent intruder blows in, looking to square some baffling dispute with partner Luis.
Coming into her own as a P.I., Annabelle learns that her quick wit, high energy, and indefatigable spirit go a long way in finding the answers—from exposing murderers to organizing a wedding—and that a Beretta can sometimes help . . . or not.
Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5; Pages: 234
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