The Granite Moth
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Publisher Description
It begins with a bang: Kathleen Stone is watching her friend Dolly and his fellow drag queens from The Pink Parrot perform at the Halloween Parade when their float explodes. Suspecting foul play, The Pink Parrot’s owner, Big Mamma, hires Kat to find the culprit.Meanwhile, Kat has not given up on her quest to bring gangster Salvatore Magrelli to justice and once more dons a disguise to infiltrate The Skyview, an exclusive club run by his wife, Eva. When she watches the club’s poker dealer drop dead during a high-stakes game, she decides to look into his death as well. Upon discovering that he was also gay, she suspects that this murder could be a hate crime connected to the parade explosion.However, as Kat digs deeper, she realizes that the truth is much more complicated and the real villains are much more difficult to spot.
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In Wright's so-so second novel featuring reluctant PI Kat Stone (after 2014's The Red Chameleon), Kat is pursuing the big one who got away during her stint as an NYPD undercover detective drug kingpin Salvatore Magrelli until a second case distracts her. At Manhattan's annual Halloween parade in Greenwich Village, Kat is watching the float from the Pink Parrot club pass by, with Kat's friend Dolly and fellow drag queens performing, when a flaming baton ignites it, seemingly by accident. Or was it? Two fatalities and the revelation of prior death threats to Pink Parrot performers prompt club owner Lacy "Big Mamma" Burstyn to hire Kat to investigate. When a gay poker dealer is poisoned in a posh supper club operated by Magrelli's wife, Kat suspects a link between the cases. Kat crisscrosses New York in various disguises, confronting persons of interest who unconvincingly flip-flop from good guy to bad guy and back again in a messy plot not enhanced by a depressed heroine.
