Title: The Bad Penny
Author: Annabelle Lewis
Date: 2019
Publisher: PePe Press
Quote: "David Torres Cordoza entered the luxurious suite and spied his daughter, Petunia Carrows Macchi..."
Apparently those who began the Carrows family saga with volume one will remember David, who never married Petunia's mother but stole a valuable ring from her family. Now the money's been spent and he wants to use his nine-year-old daughter for blackmail purposes. Petunia's mental age seems a few years short of her physical age, but never mind. A struggling but unethical artist, David writes a book about how he misses Petunia, puts a photo of her on the cover, and paints a series of variations on that photo until an art dealer advises him to diversify his portfolio. His goal is to make the rich Carrows family pay him to go away.
The Carrows are not to be underestimated. They made their money operating bars and casinos; in the Italian mafia family into which Petunia's mother married, the Carrows have met their match. And the rest of this novel is about how, it being too late to prosecute David for stealing the ring, they set him up for a different crime.
Annabelle Lewis is not P.G. Wodehouse, whose plots seem to have inspired hers. I thought the comedy would have been funnier if shorter, but it's funny, sort of. Mostly it's a long elaborate fantasy about rich people.
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