Lipstick and Lies (Pucci Lewis Mysteries, 1) - Softcover

Liesche, Margit

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590585631 ISBN 13: 9781590585634

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press, 2007

Synopsis

"A sharply written adventure/mystery debut." ―Kirkus Reviews

Women Air Force Service Pilot and undercover agent Pucci Lewis did not want to go to jail. But how else could she unmask Grace Buchanan-Dineen, an imprisoned countess/counteragent suspected of triple-dealing and possibly putting the country's future at risk?

Buchanan-Dineen was a real-life figure who led a German spy ring operating in Detroit during WWII. Confronted by the FBI, she agreed to act as a counteragent helping to nail the other ring members. Jailed along with her cohorts―"for her own protection"―her rancor ran deep.

Enter Pucci, landing in a B-24 bomber at the Willow Run aircraft factory. Late for a meeting, she takes a shortcut and stumbles upon a corpse. Agent Dante appears, revealing the dead man to be a German spy. A fellow Willow Run employee, Otto Renner, had been under surveillance and the FBI suspects a link between Renner and the imprisoned countess. Dante convinces Pucci to become a sister inmate to see what she can learn. Then she infiltrates a posh women's club where Buchanan-Dineen once lectured as a "charm consultant." Could the club be the center of a spy ring?

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Curate Callie Anson must balance the clergy and the paparazi, as a child's high profile death brings her parish under scrutiny.

About the Author:

Margit Liesche is the daughter of Hungarian refugees who arrived in the U.S. in 1947 following eight years of missionary service in war-torn central China. She lives and writes in Marin County, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1590585631
• ISBN 13: 9781590585634
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320