Unwilling Accomplice

Barbara Seranella

eBook - 2013

No one knows you like family. That's what makes them dangerous . . . "One of the most engaging, complex characters in mystery fiction today" (Harlan Coben). Miranda "Munch" Mancini is finally feeling confident in the life she's carved out for herself and her adopted daughter, Asia. With a good job as an auto mechanic, a house, and a dog, the pair are doing just fine. Until Asia's aunt and two cousins suddenly reappear, on the run from the Witness Protection Program and in need of Munch's help. When young cousin Charlotte goes missing after the death of a school friend, Munch turns to her sometime boyfriend and full-time cop, Rico Chacon, for help unraveling Charlotte's complicated life, before ...it's too late to save her from becoming one of Hollywood's lost street kids . . . or worse. "Munch Mancini, the struggling heroine of this series, is so powerfully depicted, with such exquisitely telling detail, that she seems drawn directly... more