The Goddaughter (Gina Gallo Mystery 1)

About this book

Gina Gallo is a gemologist who would like nothing better than to run her little jewelry shop. Unfortunately shes also "the Goddaughter " and as she tells her new friend Pete "you dont get to choose your relatives." And you cant avoid them when you live in Hamilton and they more or less run the place. When Gina bumps into Pete at the Art Gallery Gala sparks fly. So do bullets when her cousin Tony is taken down by rival mobsters from New York. It turns out Tony was carrying a load of hot gems in the heel of his shoe. When Gina is reluctantly recruited to carry the rocks back to Buffalo the worst happens: they get stolen. Pete and Gina have no choice but to steal them back even though philandering politicians shoe fetishists and a trio of inept goons stand in their way. Its all in a days work when youre the Goddaughter.