Six years ago, Marcy Wagner hired PI Angelina Bonaparte to find her missing husband Hank, who cleaned out their bank accounts and disappeared. Then Angie finds his obituary in an upstate newspaper. Marcy wants to know what why he abandoned her and the kids. Angie does, too!
She embarks on a mission that will blow the lid off Hank’s hidden life and reveal the reasons he ran. Was he a lowdown skunk? Or did he do the honorable thing when he left? Angie follows a twisted path to the truth and discovers that it lies perilously close to her own family life.
I wasn’t sure what to expect from this book - especially as I didn’t realise it was number three in the series, but I started to read and got engrossed, very engrossed! I will add that it does also work as a stand-alone as the characters are introduced to us during the course of the book.
Angie Boneparte (Bone-ah-part-eh) set up a private investigation business when her marriage ended (she got a new apartment, a fancy car, and let’s just say I have lingerie envy!), she and her intern (Bobbie) have an on-going case, a few years back a school teacher just up and left, emptied out the bank account and disappeared! When the police drew a blank as to where he ended up his wife (Marcy) engaged AB-Investigations and whilst nothing was found at the time Angie keeps going back to the case as something new may have cropped up, and it is something new that sets the story in motion.
The action is slow to get going at first but then WHAM and there is no stopping it, this isn’t a cozy mystery but nor is it all blood and gore (thankfully - I am not so keen on those!), but what it is, is a riveting story and I now want to read the first two to find out how Angie got to where she is. If you enjoy a lightish murder mystery then read this - you (hopefully) won’t be disappointed.
NB - I was lucky enough to read an advance copy from NetGalley
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