The Witless Protection Program
Mia Carina has steered her Italian-American family's Astoria, Queens, catering hall into becoming the borough's premiere party site, and nothing could make her happier-except her boyfriend proposing. There's just one presumed-dead obstacle in the way.



A strong, independent woman and respected entrepreneur, Mia never imagined she'd pine for a marriage proposal. Yet lately, with her beloved Shane, she's on tenterhooks. It's especially surprising, considering Mia's first husband, Adam, was a philandering grifter, assumed lost-at-sea after a boating disaster. But everyone knows what happens when you assume.



While working a huge wedding expo in Manhattan, Mia is shocked to spot the man who nearly destroyed her life. The one who's supposed to be sleeping with the fishes. But she loses him in the crowd. And when it happens again the next day, it's time for an emergency meeting with the family-and the Family. Because if Adam is alive, Mia is still married.



Everyone wants Adam dead. Everyone except Mia. She's dealt with enough police for a lifetime. Mia needs to be a divorcée, not a widow. But someone out there disagrees, and if Mia doesn't discover who, she may never be free to marry Shane.
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The Witless Protection Program
Mia Carina has steered her Italian-American family's Astoria, Queens, catering hall into becoming the borough's premiere party site, and nothing could make her happier-except her boyfriend proposing. There's just one presumed-dead obstacle in the way.



A strong, independent woman and respected entrepreneur, Mia never imagined she'd pine for a marriage proposal. Yet lately, with her beloved Shane, she's on tenterhooks. It's especially surprising, considering Mia's first husband, Adam, was a philandering grifter, assumed lost-at-sea after a boating disaster. But everyone knows what happens when you assume.



While working a huge wedding expo in Manhattan, Mia is shocked to spot the man who nearly destroyed her life. The one who's supposed to be sleeping with the fishes. But she loses him in the crowd. And when it happens again the next day, it's time for an emergency meeting with the family-and the Family. Because if Adam is alive, Mia is still married.



Everyone wants Adam dead. Everyone except Mia. She's dealt with enough police for a lifetime. Mia needs to be a divorcée, not a widow. But someone out there disagrees, and if Mia doesn't discover who, she may never be free to marry Shane.
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The Witless Protection Program

The Witless Protection Program

by Maria DiRico

Narrated by Devon Sorvari

Unabridged — 8 hours, 13 minutes

The Witless Protection Program

The Witless Protection Program

by Maria DiRico

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Mia Carina has steered her Italian-American family's Astoria, Queens, catering hall into becoming the borough's premiere party site, and nothing could make her happier-except her boyfriend proposing. There's just one presumed-dead obstacle in the way.



A strong, independent woman and respected entrepreneur, Mia never imagined she'd pine for a marriage proposal. Yet lately, with her beloved Shane, she's on tenterhooks. It's especially surprising, considering Mia's first husband, Adam, was a philandering grifter, assumed lost-at-sea after a boating disaster. But everyone knows what happens when you assume.



While working a huge wedding expo in Manhattan, Mia is shocked to spot the man who nearly destroyed her life. The one who's supposed to be sleeping with the fishes. But she loses him in the crowd. And when it happens again the next day, it's time for an emergency meeting with the family-and the Family. Because if Adam is alive, Mia is still married.



Everyone wants Adam dead. Everyone except Mia. She's dealt with enough police for a lifetime. Mia needs to be a divorcée, not a widow. But someone out there disagrees, and if Mia doesn't discover who, she may never be free to marry Shane.

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2024-01-20
The untimely return of her ex means the only wedding New York City caterer Mia Carina can’t host is her own.

After numerous false starts, Mia’s gorgeous beau Shane Gambrazzo finds the perfect time and place to pop the question: between the third and fourth innings of a Mets-Dodgers game. Unfortunately, after Mia’s enthusiastic “Yes!,” as the kiss cam pans over the crowd, the flustered bride-to-be sees the face of her supposedly deceased ex-husband, Adam Grosso. After several more sightings, Adam finally approaches Mia and tells her the Witness Protection Program has relocated him under the name Gerald Katzenberger. Mia’s quandary over having both a fiance and a husband mercifully ends when Adam’s corpse is found near the Astoria house Mia’s grandmother purchased as a wedding present for the happy couple. Instead of worrying about too many husbands, now Mia frets over too many suspects. If she can’t figure out which of Adam’s many enemies killed him, one or more of her friends may end up spending her wedding day in the slammer instead of at the reception. Adding to her distress, the online coverage of Adam’s death broadcasts the news that the house Mia’s Nonna bought for her was the former residence of the late cartoonist Dan Fee, which brings a horde of Fee fans into the street to call for the place to be declared a historic landmark. Whether Mia will ever live happily in her new home with her handsome hubby is little in doubt, but the road to wedded bliss is paved with a whirlwind of fun.

The solution to the puzzle is merely icing on the cake of this madcap confection.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940160160320
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Publication date: 03/26/2024
Series: Catering Hall Mystery , #5
Edition description: Unabridged
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