- Fiction, Florida, fiction, Di cilia, karen (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, thrillers, suspense
Gorgeous widow Karen DiCilia finds out what it really means to be married to the mob when she reads her Mafia husband's will. He left her millions in stocks and bonds, a Florida Gold Coast mansion, and priceless antiques. Of course, he also left orders that she'll lose everything the minute she sleeps with another man. But Karen's husband didn't count on a sexy ex-con from Detroit with a scam to get Karen and her money--unless, of course, it gets them both killed first.
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Classical in form, unpretentious, effortless and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- effortlessdemanding
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Elmore Leonard
- First published
- 1980
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Bantam Books, Star, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780062206091
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“thing going anywhere from Key West to West Palm, over to Bimini and back and probably did. The only one Karen was sure of, though, was the frosted-blonde thirty-six-year-old real estate woman in Boca.”
Elmore John Leonard Jr. was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures. *--Wikipedia*
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