The Someday File

Deuce Mora's one tough cookie: a female sleuth with a conscience and an attitude; fiery, tough, athletic, a dirty fighter when she has to be. In Jean Heller's first mystery featuring the scrappy newspaper columnist, Deuce finds out in short order that if you mess with organized crime, you have to be tough-and you'd better be as much detective as reporter. When she walks into a seedy neighborhood bar in a suburb of Chicago-all six feet of her, topped with auburn curls-she's searching for a h...