Here Comes the Body
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3.9 • 31 Ratings
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
After her philandering husband’s boat went down, newly single Mia Carina went back to Astoria, the bustling Queens neighborhood of her youth. Living with her nonna and her oversized cat, Doorstop, she’s got a whole new life—including some amateur sleuthing . . .
Mia is starting work at Belle View, her father’s catering hall, a popular spot for weddings, office parties, and more—despite the planes that occasionally roar overhead on their way to LaGuardia and rattle the crystal chandelier. Soon she’s planning a bachelor party for a less-than-gentlemanly groom. But it goes awry when the gigantic cake is wheeled in and a deadly surprise is revealed . . .
Since some of her family’s associates are on the shady side, the NYPD wastes no time in casting suspicion on Mia’s father. Now, Mia’s going to have to use all her street smarts to keep him out of Rikers Island . . .
Italian recipes included!
“Mamma mia! What a nifty story. This endearing new heroine has a lot on her plate—all of it delicious fun!”
—Laura Levine, author of Death of a Gigolo
“A catered feast of a mystery.”
—Sherry Harris, author of Let’s Fake a Deal
Customer Reviews
FUN READ!
This is a delightfully entertaining debut novel of a new series by Maria DiRico (pen name of Ellen Byron)! It’s a story about Mia Carina moving back to help her family & realizing that the FAMILY is something you never really leave. Her Dad is doing his best to stay on the straight & narrow at a catering hall known as Belle View. Maria quickly discovers there’s more to running a catering hall than dealing with Bridezillas, finding the perfect matching “natural” hue of flowers, overcoming being in the flight path of LaGuardia & having using a ride share driven by her old boyfriend that she should have married. All of that is really quite normal stuff until the night of the Worst Bachelor Party Ever. That’s when murder, mayhem & madness breakout! Will Maria be able to find any clues to the this mystery? Will her Dad be implicated? Will he have to call in favors from the Family or is the Family somehow involved? Very clever debut novel!!