Cinda Mae Bradbury, ex-stripper turned restaurateur, has a problem. Her sous chef disappeared in the middle of the night while making his famous Mole Poblano. Cinda thinks someone kidnapped him to steal his Mole recipe. Private Investigator Polly Berger isn't so sure.
Holy Mole Murder is the second book in the P.I. Polly Berger series. Cinda Mae Bradbury, ex-stripper turned restaurateur, has a problem. Her sous chef disappeared in the middle of the night while making his famous Mole Poblano. Cinda Mae thinks someone kidnapped him in order to steal his Mole recipe. Private Investigator Polly Berger isn't so sure.
To complicate matters, Polly's ex, Hollywood Detective Johnny Birdwhistle, wants to charge Cinda's missing chef with murder. If that isn't enough trouble for one day, Polly's twin sister arrives from Pittsburgh in an effort to escape her abusive husband. And then there's the matter of the Sidereal Society sisters. Could things get any worse for Polly?
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Chapter One
When Bernardo 'Bunny' Contreras ambled into my private office in Hollywood and closed the door behind him, it meant one thing. It used to mean two things, but based on the current state of our relationship, a new client must have walked in our front door -- a prosperous client, I hoped, because our balance sheet read red with a capital R.
Bunny is the part-time secretary for my P.I. service, Polly Berger Investigations, Inc. He's also my karate instructor and swing dance partner in addition to earning his chops as a standup comic on weekends, which is why he only works for me part-time. At the age of twenty-six he's ten years my junior. Well, ten years that I admit to.
Yolanda Carter dreams of owning her own bakery. Employed at a cat shelter, she stumbles across a scheme that threatens to close it down. Will her delicious brownies save them?
Following several murders, means, motive, and opportunity all point to out-of-work actresses Bootsie Kittredge and Babs Harrison. Their claims of righteousness and lack of guilt seem fabricated, thanks to a cheerfull announcement made to the patrons
