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Penelope “Pen” Banks has a knack for puzzling things out and the uncanny ability to remember everything she sees. Two talents that have helped her make ends meet, playing cards in clubs and speakeasies. Now, they might just help her discover the true cause of death for a dear old family friend.

In the second installment of Maria DiRico's new Catering Hall Mystery series, Mia Carina is back in the borough of Queens, in charge of the family catering hall Belle View Banquet Manor, and keeping her nonna company. But some events - like murder at a shower - are not the kind you can schedule....

Real estate developer Harold Longworth is facing life in prison for the murder of his wife in their Sagaponack, Long Island home. Just hired by the defense attorneys, former NYPD detective Giuseppe "Joey" Mancuso realizes that for a whole year before the trial, the attorneys have bungled the investigation. Was it on purpose? Are the attorneys covering something up? Joey and his half-brother, Father Dominic O'Brian, have 10 days before the end of the trial to find the real murderer.

Wisecracking Jane Teach had pirate blood, a take-charge attitude, and a penchant for sticking her nose in the wrong places. Sober-minded Bill Popple was from one of Long Island's first families, a conservative-minded young man who walked the straight and narrow. When they met it was loathing at first sight, definitely not a match made in heaven. But with six people trying to kill them over a dead bootlegger's lost fortune and a pirate's treasure secretly buried 300 years ago, they both needed each other.

Es ist der 30. Juli 1994 in Orphea, ein warmer Sommerabend an der amerikanischen Ostküste: An diesem Tag wird der Badeort durch ein schreckliches Verbrechen erschüttert, denn in einem Mehrfachmord sterben der Bürgermeister und seine Familie sowie eine zufällige Passantin. Zwei jungen Polizisten, Jesse Rosenberg und Derek Scott, werden die Ermittlungen übertragen, und sie gehen ihrer Arbeit mit größter Sorgfalt nach, bis ein Schuldiger gefunden ist. Doch zwanzig Jahre später behauptet die Journalistin Stephanie Mailer, dass Rosenberg und Scott sich geirrt haben.