Meredith P. (Francophile) reviewed on 8/16/2010 + 52 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

A new series begins from Nancy Martin, author of the Blackbird series. Roxy Abruzzo, a TOUGH woman with a past that includes a Mafia don for an uncle and an interesting former lover now back in the neighborhood, is about as far from the upper class ladies of Martin's former series as you can get! Roxy's Pittsburgh is as much a character in the book as she is, and adds much to the ambience.

Roxy works as an architectural artifact salvager and seller, and is surrounded by a group of oddball characters that are her "family." She removes a 7-foot statue of a naked man from a site about to be razed, gets mixed up in the murder of a wealthy aquaintance, and finds she has to extricate someone she loves from danger.

This is a grittier story than before from Martin, but very good, and well-written.

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