There Was a Crooked Man
A Cat DeLuca Mystery
The Cat DeLuca Mysteries: Book #5
By K. J. Larsen & Poisoned Pen Press
Narrated by Carol Monda / 6 hours 49 minutes
Life is looking up these days for Chicago PI Cat DeLuca. Her Pants on Fire Detective Agency is booming, and FBI boyfriend, Chance Savino, still curls her toes. She both adores and dodges her outrageous Italian family. Mama’s latest scheme to marry her off involves a romantic cruise, insane amounts of champagne, and a hijacked priest to tie the knot.But Cat’s near-perfect world is thrown into a tailspin when Captain Bob’s dog is kidnapped and a ghost from the past threatens to expose a terrible secret. Cat launches an investigation that leads her to a decades-old armed robbery, an unsolved murder, and a fresh body.But when she unearths a wicked truth about Papa and Bob, her trust is shattered, and the detective finds herself faced with the most daunting dilemma of her life.Cat DeLuca is an unexpected heroine. She’s tenacious, unstoppable, and rocks the heck out of a pair of Jimmy Choo’s. In a wild race against time, she inches closer to the truth and into the sights of a killer. And all the while, a man who got away with murder twice is closing in on Cat.There Was a Crooked Man is a labyrinth of twists and turns packed with suspense. It’s a tale of betrayal and second chances and the utterly astonishing things we do to save the ones we love.
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Liar, Liar
By: K. J. Larsen & Poisoned Pen Press
Narrated by: Vanessa Hart
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Caterina DeLuca, burned by her run-around now ex-husband, Johnnie Ricco, took the skills she mastered during marriage and opened her own private-eye agency. Now she’s armed with a camera, ready to print the evidence on 8 × 10 glossies for use in divorce court. The men in her big, crazy family, all Chicago cops and one a crook, aren’t sure what... Read more »
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Sticks and Stones
By: K. J. Larsen & Poisoned Pen Press
Narrated by: Vanessa Hart
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Sticks and stones may break my bones—or they might actually kill me.
What does a woman do when she discovers her husband is an incurable cheater? If she’s Cat DeLuca, she launches the Pants on Fire Detective Agency. Now Cat does what two years of unholy matrimony taught her to do: she catches cheaters. When a client, Cleo Jones, shoots her... Read more »
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Some Like It Hot
By: K. J. Larsen & Poisoned Pen Press
Narrated by: Vanessa Hart
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Whenan old friend buys a trench coat and opens his own detective agency, PI CatDeLuca sees a train wreck coming. Everything Billy Bonham knows about being aprivate eye he learned from Humphrey Bogart. And that’s just enough to make himdangerous.
Thebungling detective is in way over his head on a case involving murder and astolen pair of Marilyn... Read more »
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Bye, Bye, Love
By: K. J. Larsen & Poisoned Pen Press
Narrated by: Carol Monda
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Chicago’s Pants on Fire Detective Agency targets liars and cheats. But private investigator Cat DeLuca is once again up to her smokin’ skinny jeans in murder.Cat is out running in a neighborhood park when she crashes over the faceless body of Bernie Love. Bernie was the finance guy for the scary Provenza family and a friend to Cat’s shady uncle... Read more »
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There Was a Crooked Man
By: K. J. Larsen & Poisoned Pen Press
Narrated by: Carol Monda
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Life is looking up these days for Chicago PI Cat DeLuca. Her Pants on Fire Detective Agency is booming, and FBI boyfriend, Chance Savino, still curls her toes. She both adores and dodges her outrageous Italian family. Mama’s latest scheme to marry her off involves a romantic cruise, insane amounts of champagne, and a hijacked priest to tie the... Read more »
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| Author | K. J. Larsen & Poisoned Pen Press |
| Narrator | Carol Monda |
| ISBN | 9781441746153 |
| Length | 6 hours 49 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Blackstone Audio |
| Publication date | November 1, 2016 |
| Edition | Unabridged |
| Genres | Fiction & Literature, Mystery & Thriller & Cozy Mysteries |
| Libro.fm rank | #160,009 Overall |
| Genre rank | #1,331 in Cozy Mysteries |