Unpaid Dues: A Munch Mancini Crime Novel (Munch Mancini Novels) - Hardcover

Seranella, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743245008 ISBN 13: 9780743245005

Publisher: Scribner, 2003

Synopsis

Miranda "Munch" Mancini, a single mom and mechanic, seeks out a killer dredging up her past after her fingerprints and picture turn up in a murdered woman's arrest file, as she must lure the murderer out or face the consequences of her past.

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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 in the Haight, and riding with outlaw motorcycle clubs, she decided to do something normal, so she became a mechanic. Her Munch Mancini novels are No Man Standing; Unfinished Business, a Los Angeles Times "Best Book of 2001"; Unwanted Company; No Human Involved; and No Offense Intended. She and her husband, Ron, and their dogs divide their time between Laguna Beach and La Quinta, California. Her Web site is www.barbaraseranella.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0743245008
• ISBN 13: 9780743245005
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304