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Unwilling Accomplice

by Barbara Seranella
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No one knows you like family. That's what makes them dangerous . . . "One of the most engaging, complex characters in mystery fiction today" (Harlan Coben).

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 young cousin Charlotte goes missing after the death of a school friend, Munch turns to her sometime boyfriend and full-time cop, Rico Chacon, for help unraveling Charlotte's complicated life, before it's too late to save her from becoming one of Hollywood's lost street kids . . . or worse.

"Munch Mancini, the struggling heroine of this series, is so powerfully depicted, with such exquisitely telling detail, that she seems drawn directly from life. . . . Seranella does not cheapen her mysteries by giving her main character remarkable powers of detection; Munch is an intelligent yet ordinary woman forced to use every contact and every ounce of intelligence she has to figure out what's going on . . . Beautifully written and harrowing." —Booklist, starred review

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  • Release date

    November 14, 2013

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      • ISBN: 9781626811768

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      • ISBN: 9781626811768
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  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from March 15, 2004
      Miranda "Munch" Mancini has seen, done and survived just about everything in her short, hard life. Now, in Seranella's stellar seventh novel (after 2003's Unpaid Dues
      ) about the Los Angeles mechanic, she has with luck and pluck achieved close to a normal life with her precocious and happy eight-year-old adopted daughter, Asia. But a phone call from Lisa, the "lazy, ornery, selfish" sister of Asia's late father, a one-time lover of Munch's, heralds a drastic intrusion. Lisa and her daughters, 15-year-old Charlotte and 11-year-old Jill, have left a witness protection program and want to see Asia. They bring a world of trouble with them. Soon Lisa is in jail, Charlotte is missing and Munch is coping with Jill as well as Asia while trying to track down a modern-day Fagin who will kill to protect his racket. Munch will have to call on several old friends, including ex-boyfriend and homicide cop Rico Chacón, in order to find Charlotte and protect her own. Avoiding preachiness and platitudes, Seranella expertly contrasts Munch's past life, her present one and her hopes for the future. Vivid and compelling storytelling coupled with a complex and convincing heroine should expand Seranella's readership even further. (May 11)

      Forecast:
      Blurbs from Sue Grafton and Harlan Coben on
      Unpaid Dues, together with local support (an earlier title in the series
      , Unfinished Business, was a
      Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001), should boost expand Seranella's sales base.

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