Part of Callahan Garrity Mystery, book 4
First published 1996
Callahan Garrity left the Atlanta Police Department behind to start House Mouse, her housecleaning business. She's added crime investigation to her services, and business is booming. When clients ask her to track down Deloras Carter, the missing member of the 1960s girl group the VelvetTeens, Callahan takes the case. She finds Deloras quickly, but not in the way anyone expected. The singer lies unconscious beside a swimming pool, clutching a gun. Next to her floats the dead body of the trio's former producer. The evidence points straight at Deloras, making a VelvetTeens reunion impossible. Callahan refuses to accept the obvious answer. She rallies her team of "Mice" to dig deeper into the music industry's secrets. Someone else pulled that trigger, and Callahan must expose the real killer before Deloras takes the fall for murder.
Genres: mystery, crime, contemporary, thriller
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: amateur-detective, found-family
Setting: Atlanta
Period: 1960s
320 pages · Paperback · HarperPaperbacks, 96