Category: Mystery
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN-13:9780743444514
Series: Irene Kelly, #1
Pub. Date: May 2002
Date Read: December 2008
"He loved to watch fat women dance. I guess O'Connor's last night on the planet was a happy one because that night he had an eyeful of the full-figured."
One minute Irene Kelly is having drinks with her best friend, O'Connor, and the next she finds out an explosion at his house took his life and left a lot of unanswered questions.
A series violent acts follow and Irene knows that O'Connor, a reporter at the Las Piernas Express newspaper, must have been working on something important and all clues lead to a thirty-five year old unsolved crime.
Irene finds a way to get hired back to the newspaper and being that she was O'Connor's friend, she's able to get access to his files. She knows that every year O'Connor would write about an anniversary column about "Hannah", the woman found under a pier and ask readers to help identify her.
O'Connor's notes prove that he had a lot of unanswered questions and so Irene picks up where his investigation left off, and with the help of Detective Frank Harriman she'lll be able to dig up the secrets that were long buried.
So while Irene is dodging bullets and coping with the loss of her friend, she also has to deal with her feelings for Frank. When they were each starting out in their jobs they'd had an affair but things didn't work out for them then but now that they are older and in a different place in their lives can the pick up where they left off?
While I thought some of the dialogue was a bit clunky at times, overall the main character was likeable. What I did like was that the writer really pulled you into the story line from the first chapter with some a lot of action, making this a good fast-paced read.