Prosperous but ever-hapless attorney Danny Compton has an unerring nose for exceptionally unsavory murder cases, and his latest outing has all the earmarks of fireworks in the courtroom: love and S&M gone wrong, a vengeful spouse and a possible killer cop. That's just for starters. Then of course there's Danny's cousin Charlene (cross-dressing hitman Charlie)
"Sometimes I wonder whether he kills that way, an amazingly pretty woman materializing besidethem, disconcerting them, disarming them and then ..."Danny Compton, average lawyer, has cruised through life avoiding all sorts of serious matters, including just about everything related to law until he opens his apartment door and meets thehottest woman he has ever seen. She is his cousin, Charlene, sleek, sassy and drop deadgorgeous. He didn't know he had a Cousin Charlene until that moment, and he certainly didn'tknow that Charlene started life as Dwight, his cousin whom the playground bullies targeted whenthey were children.Five years later, he is Daniel Rodney Compton, the head man of Compton and Associates, thehighly successful law firm created for him by Charlene because he was the only one who stoodup for Dwight - even if they lost every fistfight. In return, Charlene asks the occasional favor, and this time it's a whopper. He has to save an anonymous child from the clutches of his abusivegrandparents, where he is headed because the system isn't working.There's a catch. Compton's professional role model and personal hero is on the case.And that ain't all. Charlene's male ego, Charlie, plays poker with a group that includes WillieWatson, who pays his losses with his wife. After Charlie wins the pot he brings her home toDaniel and then leaves town "on business." Willie's wife, Mitzi, stays with Daniel as hispersonal slave until the next big game - and Daniel has no idea how to play poker. This first book in a trilogy is followed by Pandora's Box and My Cousin's Closet.
Charlene - that glittering knockout cross-dresser with hit-man chops and a lethal wit to match - is back, and the Pandora's box she's set to crack open is bad news for both her cousins: Vinnie the shady witness-protection fixer and Danny the uptight lawyer. Not that they mind, because in a case like Toledo's mysterious after-hours bar that strays into sex trafficking, deadly cage fights and a deep-freeze full of corpses, Vinnie and Danny would be fools not to want an experienced "mechanic" like Charlene in their corner. Or their Pandora's box. The mayor isn't what the voters thought, Charlene is way more than the club owners expected, and Ike the dog? Well, he might just speak Chinese.This is the second book in a trilogy after My Cousin Charlene. It is followed My Cousin's Closet.
