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Shallow Graves (John Francis Cuddy, Bk 7)
Shallow Graves - John Francis Cuddy, Bk 7 Author:Jeremiah Healy In a South End apartment house, beautiful young model Mau Tim Dani lies dead -- murdered by an intruder. An old friend at Empire Insurance asks John Cuddy to investigate. The policy on the life of Mau Tim was half a million dollars; to the agency that represented her, she was worth every penny. Daughter of a Vietnamese mother and an Italian Amer... more »ican father, Mau Tim was born Amatina Danucci -- granddaughter of Boston's most feared mob boss, Tommy "The Temper" Danucci. Now the family wants Cuddy to turn his insurance investigation into a haunt for her murderer. They even provide Cuddy with an assistant: Primo T. Zuppone, a man of sensitive tastes and subtleties, whose specialty is taking care of "situations." With Primo as his leather-coated guardian angel, Cuddy goes to work on his suspects, from the owners of the modeling agency to Mau Tim's last boyfriend, a slick, cynical advertising executive. But the clues are leading Cuddy in another direction -- to a scenario of murder almost too terrible to imagine...« less