Part of Callahan Garrity Mystery, book 3
First published 1995
Callahan Garrity makes her living cleaning houses, but she cannot sweep away her doubts about her cousin's death. The police call it an accident. Callahan sees something darker. Her cousin lived in the suburbs, far from the world Callahan knows. The husband acts strange. His business dealings smell wrong. Callahan decides to dig deeper herself. She follows leads into Atlanta's rougher neighborhoods. Each clue she uncovers makes the official story seem thinner. The husband's shady connections spread through the city's underworld. Callahan realizes she has stumbled into something bigger than a family tragedy. She must decide how far she will go to find the truth about what really happened to her cousin.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, amateur-sleuth
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: amateur-sleuth, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Atlanta
Period: 20th-century
304 pages · Mass Market Paperback · HarperTorch