Ex-Marine Angela Matelli returns to her hometown of Boston to start a career as a private investigator. Her first client is retired policeman Tom Grady, who hires Angela to investigate his daughter's boyfriend. What starts out as a routine background check soon becomes a tangle of murder, cover-up, and intrigue when Grady is found dead outside his favorite bar. St. Martin's Press.

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Private investigator Angela Matelli becomes involved in a murder while working a case for a client whose identity has been stolen in a credit card scam

Ex-Marine turned private investigator Angela Matelli comes from a large family that have moved away from their original East Boston home. While Angela and her siblings have all chosen different lifestyles and professions, there is one inviolable rule that remains in all their lives - everyone goes to their Mother's house for Sunday dinner. So when Angela's brother Albert missed twice in a row, Mrs. Matelli is certain that something bad has happened to her son. Albert, widely believed by the family to be hooked up with the local mob, has always been scrupulous about Sunday dinner and now Mrs. Matelli wants to hire her daughter Angela to look into his disappearance. Against her better judgment, Angela - using her mother's key - breaks into Albert's apartment to find the dinner table set, an open bottle of wine, and a three-day old corpse in other room. The corpse, luckily, isn't Albert but Angela suspects someone is using the body to try and set her brother up. As she digs further into her brother's life she quickly discovers that his boss in the mob claims to nothing about Albert's troubles, the police are after him to explain the corpse in his apartment, and his partners in the Itty-Bitty Kitty toy factory are desperate for his return. Now it's up to Angela to uncover what each of these things has to do with the others - and who is trying so desperately to get to her brother - before it is too late.

Magic . . . or Murder Angela Matelli had had some weird cases in her day—but the world of voodoo, zombies and that ol' black magic is as strange as it gets for the Boston P.I., especially when it occurs on the ground of a prestigious Vermont college. Dr. Don Cannon, professor of anthropology, is on the receiving end of some disturbing gifts: a voodoo doll, and a chicken heart. He's also witnessed a recently deceased student wandering the campus grounds. The rattled prof thinks he's either going insane—or there's a zombie stalking Hartmore College. He wants Angela to tell him which. Posing as a student, Angela learns more than she ever wanted to about the walking dead—especially when it looks as if she's about to join them.