• A hard-boiled mystery for fans of Marvel's Jessica Jones, Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski novels, and Wallace Stroby's Crissa Stone series
• Caustic, hard-drinking former hitwoman Candace Starr teams up with ambitious homicide detective Chien-Shiung Malone to solve murders, while Starr chases ghosts from her past
• First book in the series was widely praised: "Tough-talking, hard-drinking Candace Starr's appealingly amoral worldview coupled with her vast range of eccentric acquaintances and family is sure to provide more murderous fun as the series develops." - Publishers Weekly
• Author hosts a book blog called She Kills Lit, where she interviews and reviews books by female-identifying authors of thriller and noir fiction
• Author's debut novel Petra's Ghost was nominated for a 2019 Goodreads Choice Award

C.S. O'Cinneide is the author of the Candace Starr crime series as well as Petra's Ghost, a semi-finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards. On her blog, She Kills Lit, she features women writers of thriller and noir. She lives in Guelph, Ontario.

Finalist for the 2022 Edgar Awards, Paperback Original Category

Candace Starr goes searching for her mother in the Detroit mob - but infiltrating her own crime family may be her deadliest assignment ever.

Candace Starr has fallen on hard times since she helped her friend, Detective Malone, with a murder case last year. These days, she trades on her dark celebrity as a former contract killer to keep the wolf from the door and her glass of Scotch whisky full. But when her teenage half-sister, Janet, shows up, Candace finds herself responsible for more than her nightly bar bill.

Candace and Janet's mercurial mother has gone missing while visiting her estranged family of Detroit mobsters, and Candace needs to track her down to take the kid off her hands. But the vicious Scarpello clan is hiding far more than her mother's whereabouts.

Witty, gritty, and full of cocky hard-edged flair, the second book in the Candace Starr series unearths the well-buried secrets of Candace's mob family tree, laying bare the roots of her own identity along the way.