Slightly Shady - Softcover

Quick, Amanda

3.84

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 1568951949 ISBN 13: 9781568951942

Publisher: Wheeler Pub Inc, 2002

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After her shop in Italy is destroyed by a stranger and she becomes the target of a blackmailer who turns up dead, Lavinia Lake joins forces with Tobias March, a private investigator hired by a secret employer, to uncover the truth, save her reputation, and find the sole surviving member of a dangerous criminal gang. (Romance)

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There's something Slightly Shady about Lavinia Lake. First of all, no decent woman would go into trade, even when an unscrupulous employer leaves her stranded abroad with her young niece. But the capable Lavinia has landed on her feet, peddling dubious reproductions of ancient artifacts in Rome to earn passage home. When a madman ransacks her shop, accusing her of aiding and abetting a murderous gang of thieves, Lavinia and her niece Emeline return to London, where Lavinia once more takes lemons and makes lemonade, becoming a private investigator. In the course of her first discreet inquiry for a wealthy aristocrat with secrets to hide, Lavinia runs into her madman once more, standing over the recently deceased body of a blackmailer. Not exactly your usual beginning for a relationship, but Mr. Tobias March is hardly an ordinary man. In fact, he's quite extraordinary, Lavinia very reluctantly admits to herself. When threats to Lavinia's safety force her into an unlikely partnership with the mysterious Mr. March, the fur--and a petticoat or two--flies. A heady combination of passion and the shared thrill of the hunt for a depraved murderer may lead Lavinia and Tobias to form a partnership of a more permanent kind. Lively suspense with a healthy dose of passion, Amanda Quick's Slightly Shady is truly addictive storytelling. --Alison Trinkle

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Danger seems to follow wherever Lavinia Lake goes. Her shop in Italy is thoroughly destroyed by a stranger. Upon her return to England with her niece, she becomes the target of a blackmailer. When she goes to his home to confront him, his murdered body is what she finds. Worse, the same stranger in Italy catches her with the body.
His name is Tobias March, and he's a private investigator hired by a secret employer to capture the last surviving member of a criminal gang. The identity of that person is in a diary, now missing but last possessed by Lavinia's blackmailer, who accused her of working for the gang in Italy. She's incensed — and desperate to find the diary. If its false allegations about her ever bacomes public knowledge, her niece's one chance at a proper Season in London society would be utterly ruined.
There's only one thing to do — join forces with Tobias, who has already determined her innocence of all

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