Maria, raised in the Mafia and educated by the gangs of New York, is hunting the man who killed her Akalina, and she will kill anyone who gets in her way.
Robert Fate, author of Baby Shark and Baby Shark's Beaumont Blues, lives in L.A., and writes about crime in Dallas, Texas in the 1950s. His protagonist is Kristin Van Dijk, the young woman partner of Otis Millett, a private investigator.