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LIAR, LIAR by K.J. Larsen: If you have a name like Caterina “Cat” DeLuca and you have grown up in a houseful of older brothers who, along with their father, are all cops, you learn about law enforcement and survival. Now Cat is the principal of Pants on Fire Detective Agency: We Catch Liars and Cheats. Having gotten her start with her own philandering liar-liar, she is now an accomplished second-story woman – have camera, will catch. She scales balconies, dangles from hotel windows, and splashes the bare facts on 8X10 glossies that tend to sweeten her clients’ divorce settlements. But then Chicago Tribune reporter Rita Polansky, masquerading as a client with a liar-liar husband, retains Cat to follow Chance Savino, a steamy guy with a pocketful of smuggled diamonds. An exploding building hurls Cat out of her sling-backs and into the hospital. The FBI claims Savino was killed in the fireworks but Cat doesn’t believe it, particularly after she finds her client at home with a knife in her chest. With Starbust candy wrappers as clues Cat must solve the case, protect her ex-husband, retain her sanity (which everyone thinks she has lost) and be ready for a sequel. What is it about Chicago that grows these great private eyes of all types?
Recommended. 09/10 Jack Quick
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