The second novel by the winner of the Sara Ann Freed Memorial Award, SECONDHAND SMOKE is a smart and suspenseful mystery featuring New Haven police reporter Annie Seymour.
In SECONDHAND SMOKE, Annie Seymour, of Karen Olson's critically-acclaimed SACRED COWS, returns to investigate a suspicious fire in a neighbourhood favourite Italian restaurant. A woman's body is found in the rubble, the restaurant owner is missing, and now the FBI is involved in the search, trying to track down the restaurant owner's connection to an illegal gambling operation.
To complicate matters, Annie's father is in town from Vegas, she's being followed by a mysterious black Cadillac with New York license plates, and P.I. Vinny DeLucia's still engaged, and not to her. The secrets of the ravaged building and of her own past put Annie face-to-face with the fact that she's an outsider in her own neighbourhood, searching for a way in.
