Red House (Filomena Buscarsela Mysteries)
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ISBN: 031228182X / Publisher: Minotaur Books, November 2001
Trying to support herself and her daughter, Filomena Buscarsela begins working for a private investigations firm, and must learn how to balance tricky pro bono cases, big money clients, and single motherhood.
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First she was a beat cop, then she was unemployed. Now, in Red House, K. j. a. Wishnia's dynamic Filomena Buscarsela has apprenticed herself to a New York City P.I. firm to put in the three years necessary to get her own P.I. license, something she needs in order to earn enough money to support herself and her daughter. Trouble is, she often agrees to take on sticky neighborhood cases pro bono rather than handle the big-bucks clients her bosses would prefer.While helping out her more "senior" colleagues with her own superior investigative techniques bred from years on the beat, Fil agrees to look into the disappearance of a young illegal immigrant. Then, witnessing the arrest of a neighbor on marijuana-possession charges that nearly turns into a shoot-out with the police, Fil is roped into finding out what went wrong. Trying to balance charity cases like these with bread-and-butter cases, not to mention single motherhood, Fil is quickly in over her head dodging bullish cops, left-wing zealots, and corrupt landlords in their working-class Queens neighborhood.
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