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    Unwilling Accomplice: A Munch Mancini Mystery
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    Unwilling Accomplice: A Munch Mancini Mystery

    By Barbara Seranella

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    About this ebook

    No one knows you like family. For Munch Mancini, that’s what makes them dangerous.

    “Barbara Seranella’s wonderful creation Munch Mancini is one of the most engaging, complex characters in mystery fiction today.” — Harlan Coben, author of NO SECOND CHANCE

    Miranda "Munch" Mancini is finally feeling confident in the life she’s carved out for herself and her adopted daughter, Asia. With a good job as an auto mechanic, a house and a dog, the pair are doing just fine. Until Asia’s aunt and two cousins suddenly reappear, on the run from the Witness Protection Program and in need of Munch’s help. When one of the young cousins, Charlotte, goes missing after the death of a school friend, Munch turns to her sometimes-boyfriend and full-time cop Rico Chacon for help in unravelling Charlotte’s complicated life before it’s too late to save her from becoming one of Hollywood’s lost street kids…or worse.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDiversion Books
    Release dateNov 12, 2013
    ISBN9781626811768
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      Munch Mancini and little daughter Asia are doing just fine. Munch rejoices in her job as an auto mechanic at the Brentwood Texaco. She and Asia have a house -- not in tony Brentwood -- and a dog, and Munch has been off drugs for years. She plans to stay that way. It's tough, though, when people from her old life resurface. Such a person is Lisa Slokum, Asia's aunt. Lisa has always meant trouble, and why should now be any different? It seems she has bolted from the Witness Protection Program with her two daughters, fifteen-year-old Charlotte and eleven-year-old Jill, and she needs Munch's help. Would that it were so simple. Munch will need to call upon Rico Chacón, a fine cop but not-so-fine boyfriend whose commitment to her on the nonprofessional side seems to be wavering. And before Munch can sort out her love life she must try on the role of auntie to Asia's new cousins -- not easy when the teenaged Charlotte goes missing and her mom, Lisa, lands in jail. Why did Charlotte run away, and where is she now? Is she in danger of becoming one of Hollywood's lost street children? Does she have information about the recent death of school friend Steven Koon? And why was a lock of her hair found stuck to a piece of duct tape in a ransacked storage locker? Munch must unravel the mystery of young Charlotte's complex life before it's too late to save her. To do that, she needs help from Rico, who's investigating the Koon boy's death. Will their professional alliance rekindle their romance? Should she take him back? Does he want to come back? Can she trust him?