In this off-the-beaten-sidewalk debut, native New Yorker Daphne Uviller reveals the secrets of a sexy, story-filled Big Apple, where a mystery lurks behind every apartment dooraand a savvy but slightly lost young woman unexpectedly finds herself holding the keys. In a city brimming with opportunities for heroism, twenty-seven-year-old Zephyr Zuckerman has often fantasized about committing acts of bravery that would make front-page news. Now she may get her big breakathough it may require plunging a few toilets. When the superintendent of her parentsa Greenwich Village brownstone is led away in handcuffs, unemployed Zephyr takes over his post and unleashes her inner sleuth: discovering titillating secrets about her tenantsafrom a smoky-voiced Frenchwoman who entertains throngs of unsavory visitors to a moody musician who just has to be hiding somethingaand realizing that her new reality is far more intriguing than her imagination. Soon Zephyr has sussed out wrongs that stretch from losers on the Internet to art fraud and an international crime ring. The mob thinks sheas in the FBI, and the FBI thinks sheas in the mobaa predicament she needs to clear up fast. But perhaps not before the cute, surly exterminator helps her solve the mystery of what to do with the rest of her lifeab. From the Trade Paperback edition.In the other column: zero ability ofany child ofhers to repair a Frigidaire dryer that was humming the Canadian national anthem. aWell, just take a look at it, then look in Jamesa#39;s files for a repair person and call him. Or her, a she quickly amended.
Title | : | Super in the City |
Author | : | Daphne Uviller |
Publisher | : | Bantam - 2009-01-27 |
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