2008 by St. Martins Press, Paperback. Like New
Carlotta thinks she's doing a friend a simple favor when she agrees to burglar-proof an elderly recluse's apartment. But twenty-four hours later the woman turns up dead, her apartment ransacked, and Carlotta is left with entertainment moguls and real estate magnates breathing down her neck, as well as a lot of questions: What is an old lady's apartment worth to a greedy developer? What was the "article of value" the woman was so eager to protect? Questions she needs to answer in a hurry, before an innocent woman is convicted, before the arsonist who set fire to Carlotta's house strikes again...Filled with gripping plot twists and the razor-sharp dialogue that makes Carlotta "a heroine worth spending time with"