Audio Book Description:
Madeline Dare, a tough-talking, shotgun-toting ex-debutante, is not your average detective. Then again, not much about her life is what sheexpected. Born of old money into high society, she married into a Syracuse farming family and a bottom-of-the-food chain job writing puff pieces for thelocal newspaper. Her emotional barometerthese days ranges from dry irony to whining exasperation. Then Madelline discovers mysterious circumstanceslinking her favorite cousin to a twenty-year-old murder case, and suddenly her roots are a serious matter again-deadly serious. Unwilling toturn her evidence over to the authorities before figuring some things out herself, she will embark on an illprepared and harrowing investigationinto the real dark side of her world.