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    Sticky Fingers: A Roxy Abruzzo Mystery

    By Nancy Martin

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    Roxy Abruzzo stays one step ahead of trouble----especially now that her cash flow is less than stellar, and she's "doing favors" for her slippery uncle Carmine, one of the last old-time Mob bosses in Pittsburgh.

    With her sidekick, Nooch, and her thieving pitbull, Rooney, Roxy hustles the mean streets collecting debts for Uncle Carmine and keeping his customers in line. With her daughter's college tuition to pay, Roxy can almost convince herself that the shady jobs are legal. But when Carmine's consigliere offers Roxy a contract to kidnap someone, that's a line she won't cross.

    Trouble is the kidnapping happens anyway, and when the victim turns up murdered, Roxy's number one on the police hit parade. To protect herself, she investigates and soon learns the victim had a big secret---or two. Add a rock singer with a penchant for dinosaur bones and throw in a pesky paleontologist, plus an ex-nun with a mustache problem---not to mention a sexy chef with a taste for whatever Roxy dishes up---and you've got a caper full of quirky characters and laugh-out-loud mayhem.

    Peppered as usual with Nancy Martin's sharp one-liners, Sticky Fingers---the second Roxy Abruzzo mystery---is even tastier than the first.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMar 29, 2011
    ISBN9781429966948
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    Sticky Fingers: A Roxy Abruzzo Mystery
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    Nancy Martin

    Winner of the 2009 Lifetime Achievement award for mystery writing from Romantic Times magazine, Nancy Martin announces the release of the 8th book in her popular Blackbird Sisters mystery series, NO WAY TO KILL A LADY. Set in Philadelphia, the story features three heiresses whose parents have run off with their trust funds. Now thay have a chance to regain their wealth when their aunt, "Madcap Maddy" Blackbird dies in a volcano and leaves her estate to the sisters. But Nora Blackbird soon discovers all the treasures in Aunt Maddy's house have disappeared...information that leads her to believe maybe Maddy didn't die the way everybody thinks. Author of 48 pop fiction novels in mystery, suspense, historical and romance genres, Nancy created The Blackbird Sisters in 2002--- mysteries about three impoverished heiresses who adventure in couture and crime --as if "Agatha Christie had wandered onto the set of Sex and The City." Nominated for the Agatha Award for Best First Mystery of 2002, HOW TO MURDER A MILLIONAIRE won the RT award for Best First Mystery and was a finalist for the Daphne DuMaurier Award. Currently, she is at work on the Roxy Abruzzo mystery series for St. Martin's Minotaur. In 2009 she received the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award for mystery writing. Nancy lives in Pittsburgh, serves on the board of Sisters in Crime and is a founding member of Pennwriters.

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    • 5/5
      Roxy Abruzzo's architectural salvage business isn't doing so well; not only does she have a cash-flow problem, she is lacking the money that her daughter Sage needs for her tuition.Roxy's Uncle Carmine, Pittsburgh's mob boss, knows this & sends his attorney, Marvin Weiss, to offer Roxy a job. Someone has sent Carmine a cryptic contract note requesting a kidnapping. Local museum curator, Clarice Crabtree (Roxy's former high school nemesis) is on someone's short list and that person want Clarice gone. But Roxy has a heart and goes to warn Clarice. Between Clarice being her same nasty self and Rooney, Roxy's dog, digging through a freezer of old bones; Roxy forgets what she actually came to do and Clarice leaves before Roxy can warn her of the contract.When Clarice is found dead, floating in the river & trussed up in a rug the problems really begin. It turns out that Clarice had two husbands and two children that she was supporting, all in a very expensive lifestyle; her daughter Sugar, an Olympian ice skater hopeful and her son Richie, an up & coming avant garde dress designer lacked nothing to aid them making their dreams come true.Meanwhile Clarice had put her father, a famous paleontologist, in a nursing home for Alzheimer's patients, but he escapes & returns home in an attempt to protect his frozen bones...Also in the mix are: Nooch, Roxie's friend & co-workerFlynn, Roxie's former, Sage's father, & chef extraordinaire whose newest soup (made for a rockstar who collects dinosaur bones) has a secret ingredient that not even Flynn knows about Aunt Loertta, who raised RoxySister Bob, former nun & Loretta's cousinGino Martinelli, who owes Carmine money & receives an unpleasant visit from RoxyZack Cleary, Sage's on-off again boyfriend & police academy cadetAdasha Washington, Roxy's friend, neighbor & ER Doctor who helps abused women find shelterAdd all these people and several others into the mix and you have a zany, rollicking, funny story that rivals Carl Hiaasen.
    • 4/5
      This was better than the first book. You got to know a little more of the characters and the relationships. The first book Roxy was just kind of scattered and all over the place, kind of on a destructive course. But this one was face paced and enjoyable. I like that she is tough and doesn't let things depress her. I look forward to reading the next installment if there is one.
    • 4/5
      While I definitely prefer her Blackbird sisters mysteries, I have to say this one, while far more explicit and blue-collar, still has it's charms for me. The characters are interesting and engaging even with the myriad of problems and addictions. The mystery was very well written and the author managed to keep me from figuring out who the culprit(s) was until she wanted me to find out. If I had my choice, I'd ask Ms. Martin to go back to the Blackbirds, but if she keeps writing about Roxy, I'll probably keep reading about her.
    • 3/5
      I just don't like Nancy Martin's Roxy series as much as her series about the Blackbird sisters. Roxy is a little harder to get to know and want to read about. Lots of action and plenty of colorful characters though. A fun read.