Unpaid Dues - Hardcover

Barbara Seranella

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0709077009 ISBN 13: 9780709077008

Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

Munch Mancini - mechanic, limousine driver, mother - has lived a hard life and done it all: sex, drugs, you name it. But now she has her adopted eight-year-old daughter, Asia, a house and job she loves...and she also has trouble when the battered body of her former pal is washed up in a Los Angeles drainage canal. Munch's policeman friend Mace St. John runs the dead woman's prints: her name is Jane Ferrar, but in her arrest report Mace finds Munch's photograph and fingerprints. What's the tie between the two women? Who killed Jane and what is the significance of the baby doll tied to her arms? Despite severing all ties with the people she used to know, especially Jane Ferrar and a dangerous man named Thor, Munch soon learns that it's not that easy to escape the past. Now, her whole new life is in danger of unravelling unless she can stop a killer.

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Review

Munch Mancini's past catches up with her in this sixth adventure featuring the reformed bad girl turned garage mechanic and single mother--a series that's gaining fans with every new outing for a good reason--Munch is an authentically original creation with grit, wit, and determination, which often serve her better than her loyalty to old friends. Now one of those friends turns up murdered, and when homicide Detective Mace St. John finds Munch's prints and photo on the corpse's records, a bloody part of her past threatens to blow Munch and her daughter's future away. If that's not enough, the teenage son of another old friend turns up on Munch's doorstep, but of course it's no coincidence. By the time Sernaella ties a boy named Bug, a drug-fueled murder spree the cops have long since closed the books on, and a dead woman in a storm drain together in a fast-placed plot, she's brought another piece of Munch's history into sharper focus, making her hard-fought struggle to turn her life around even more interesting, involving, and inspiring. --Jane Adams

About the Author

Barbara Seranella was born in Santa Monica and grew up in Pacific Palisades. After running away from home at fourteen, joining a hippie commune and riding with outlaw motorcycle clubs she decided to do something normal and became a mechanic. Her previous novel, No Man Standing, was also published by Robert Hale. For more information visit www .barbaraseranella.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0709077009
• ISBN 13: 9780709077008
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256