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Deuce Moras one tough cookie a female sleuth with a conscience and an attitude fiery tough athletic a dirty fighter when she has to be In Jean Hellers first mystery featuring the scrappy newspaper columnist Deuce finds out in short order that if you mess with organized crime you have to be toughand youd better be as much detective as reporter When she walks into a seedy neighborhood bar in a suburb of Chicagoall six feet of her topped with auburn curlsshes searching for a humaninterest story What she finds is Vinnie Colangelo an aging mobster living on bad beer cheap bourbon and regret for the life he wasted