Brick City Blues

The second in a series of noir romance "Blues" novellas, Brick City Blues centers on a chance meeting between two strangers on an airport layover in Newark, New Jersey--the Brick City. She's shuttling between her teaching job at Cornell and a research project in DC; he's on his way to deliver a briefcase full of cash from the Cuban mob in Miami to a local capo for the Italian Mafia in Utica, New York. But opposites attract.

Unaware of what he might be mixed up in, she finds herself slowly dr...