The Black Rose Murders
(2019)(The first book in the Kitty Callahan Mystery series)
A novel by Jane Kalmes
Behind every great hard-boiled detective, there stands a woman like Kitty Callahan.
When farm girl Kitty Callahan moves to Chicago in1928, she’s planning to immerse herself in jazz, adventure, and romance—not murder.
But she arrives to find her uncle dead, his fortune missing, and his eight-year-old daughter, Koko, placed in her care. Broke and desperate, she’s got just one hope: find the missing money. And with the help of handsome (and infuriating!) detective Tom Gallo, she just might do it.
Kitty digs into the mystery, and finds herself plunged into a side of Chicago she never imagined existed. She’ll have to go up against an aging socialite who knows more than she’s telling, a scheming aunt who’ll hurt anyone to get what she wants, and a love-struck bootlegger who is almost as charming as he is frightening. Not to mention a killer who isn’t finished yet…
Genre: Cozy Mystery
When farm girl Kitty Callahan moves to Chicago in1928, she’s planning to immerse herself in jazz, adventure, and romance—not murder.
But she arrives to find her uncle dead, his fortune missing, and his eight-year-old daughter, Koko, placed in her care. Broke and desperate, she’s got just one hope: find the missing money. And with the help of handsome (and infuriating!) detective Tom Gallo, she just might do it.
Kitty digs into the mystery, and finds herself plunged into a side of Chicago she never imagined existed. She’ll have to go up against an aging socialite who knows more than she’s telling, a scheming aunt who’ll hurt anyone to get what she wants, and a love-struck bootlegger who is almost as charming as he is frightening. Not to mention a killer who isn’t finished yet…
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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