Showing results for "Delia" in Crime Fiction

At 44, Eve Mozell has a wonderful husband and a creative job. She also has a temperamental teenage son, two headstrong sisters, and a demented old father. As she deals with her family's frequent crises, her days overflow with lengthy phone calls. She is never far from a dial tone. But as her father begins to die, Eve is tempted to disconnect and to sort out her feelings for this difficult man.

Git O'Rourke is from the wrong side of the tracks - even if, in the depressed Rust Belt town of Baxter, it's not always clear where that designation begins. A single mother, she works hard to support her daughter, Charlie, but still finds time to cut loose every once in a while, to go to a local bar, drink martinis, and find a companion for the night. Which is exactly how she ends up in a hotel room with a strange man passed out on heroin and how she comes to possess the bag of money and guns that he left open as he got his fix.

Milano, marzo 2020. Anche il vivace quartiere di Porta Venezia cambia volto, dopo le disposizioni governative che invitano la popolazione a restare chiusa in casa. Le strade si svuotano, le convivenze forzate mettono a dura prova i rapporti di coppia e le persone faticano a imparare le regole per contrastare il nuovo virus. Con le saracinesche dei negozi che si abbassano, solo la vecchia e bizzarra magliaia Delia rimane arroccata nel suo laboratorio di via Lecco. Il momento è difficile per tutti.