Mundania Press Authors Den Category:  Mystery/Suspense Publisher: Hard Shell Word Factory ISBN-10:  0759900396 Type: Fiction Pages: 218 Copyright: Jan 1 2001 Toni Credella apprentices herself to a PI and investigates the murder of a homeless woman whose body was discovered on the site where the body of a young girl murdered twenty years earlier was discovered. What's the connection? Dyslexic Toni Credella isn't on good terms with her Italian family because she shot and killed her abusive husband who happened to be a Baltimore cop. When she apprentices herself to a PI in hopes of supporting herself and the house she's rehabbing, she finds herself investigating the murder of a homeless woman in her neighborhood. The woman's body was found on the site where the remains of a young girl murdered twenty years earlier were unearthed. Toni believes there's a connection.  Excerpt "Unidentified body found buried under a pile of bricks near Fells Point. Been there for years. According to forensics it used to be a young girl, white, early twenties" I pushed my beer away. What had happened to this girl? It could be so many things--an angry boyfriend, a chance meeting with a crazy. Maybe she'd been a runaway who'd accepted a ride with Mr. Wrong. Now, she'd never tell her story.

Buried in Baltimore
Titchener has certainly stacked the odds against her protagonist. Toni Credella is a dyslexic interior designer living in the Baltimore slums and short on customers. Four years ago she was tried and acquitted for shooting her abusive police officer husband. Her family have baraely forgiven her and her husband's peers have not. If this were not enough, she decides to make a career change to become a private investigator.