Gotta run.â Potential? The phone went click . My eyes were wide as I swung around to Pete. âYou? You took those fives to the poker game?â Pete was grinning. âThatâs why you were playing nice with Carmine and Bertoni,â I said. âI couldnât figure it out.â Peteâs big arms reached forward to gather me up. âPayback is sweet. Happy wedding gift, beautiful.â Payback, indeed. I met his eyes and smiled. âYou are really going to fit into this family.â
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Many thanks to my dear friend and colleague Alison Bruce, who loves this series and is always generous with support and encouragement. Thanks also to Cathy Astolfo and Cheryl Freedman, who read my early drafts and provide feedback, usually in the form of laughter, thankfully. Sincere thanks to John Thompson, for sharing his vast knowledge of security systems and patiently answering my novice questions. And finally, I am particularly grateful to the wonderful team at Orca Books and particularly my editor, Ruth Linka, who makes every step of the publishing journey a pleasure.
Library Digest compared MELODIE CAMPBELL to Janet Evanovich. But comedy and mystery writing came to Melodie after she was a bank manager, marketing director and college instructor. Melodie has over two hundred publications, including one hundred comedy credits and forty short stories, and has won ten awards for short fiction. In 2014 Melodie won both the Derringer Award and the Arthur Ellis Award for The Goddaughterâs Revenge . She is the executive director of Crime Writers of Canada and lives outside of Toronto, Ontario.
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Gina Gallo is a gemologist who would like nothing better than to run her little jewelry shop. Unfortunately sheâs also the âGoddaughterâ. Try as she might, Gina canât escape the family business.