Starr Sign
The Candace Starr Series
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Publisher Description
Finalist for the 2022 Edgar Awards, Paperback Original Category
Candace Starr goes searching for her mother in the Detroit mob — but infiltrating her own crime family may be her deadliest assignment ever.
Candace Starr has fallen on hard times since she helped her friend, Detective Malone, with a murder case last year. These days, she trades on her dark celebrity as a former contract killer to keep the wolf from the door and her glass of Scotch whisky full. But when her teenage half-sister, Janet, shows up, Candace finds herself responsible for more than her nightly bar bill.
Candace and Janet’s mercurial mother has gone missing while visiting her estranged family of Detroit mobsters, and Candace needs to track her down to take the kid off her hands. But the vicious Scarpello clan is hiding far more than her mother’s whereabouts.
Witty, gritty, and full of cocky hard-edged flair, the second book in the Candace Starr series unearths the well-buried secrets of Candace’s mob family tree, laying bare the roots of her own identity along the way.
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Early in Canadian author O'Cinneide's enjoyable sequel to 2020's The Starr Sting Scale, irreverent and amoral Candace Starr, a former contract killer, gets a call from her homicide detective friend, Chien-Shiung Malone, asking her to come to the police station to identify the body of a woman who may be Angela Scarpello, Candace's mother, though Candace wonders why Malone thinks this is possible given that she hasn't seen the woman since she was a toddler. At the station, Candace is surprised to meet her 13-year-old half sister she didn't know existed, Janet. DNA on the dead woman, who turns out to have been a nurse present at Candace's birth who was murdered and put in a freezer for 30 years, matches Angela's. With Janet in tow, Candace sets off for Detroit, Angela's last known location and home of the Scarpello Mafia clan, in search of their mother. Candace needs to know why, after decades of estrangement, Angela was in contact with the family. Could it have to do with the selection of the clan's ruthless new don? Candace's wryly amusing take on events is perfectly balanced with scenes of chilling action. Fans of Lawrence Block's burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr will have fun.
