Death Was in the Blood - Tapa dura

Death Was in the Blood is as fun and captivating a romp through Prohibition-era shenanigans as Richards's earlier don't-miss novels starring the inimitable secretary-cum-shamus Kitty Pangborn. If you love hard-boiled dialogue speakeasy gin and a rollicking good historical mystery don't be a chump -- buy this book! -- Kelli Stanley Macavity Award-winning author of City of Dragons "

In the third Kitty Pangborn novel Kitty finds herself challenged by what-might-have-beens. When Dex is charged with finding out who's threatening a wealthy industrialist's daughter Kitty discovers herself back in the social class she was raised to only now she s expected to come in the service entrance. It doesn't help that the young woman they've been hired to look out for doesn't want Dex and Kitty's protection: she's headstrong willful and -- in many ways -- not unlike Kitty herself. Set against the backdrop of preparation for the 1932 Olympic games Death Was in the Blood takes the reader smack-dab into the lost history of the City of Angels and the point where Kitty discovers what it means to give it up and let it go. "