Money to Burn: A Ronnie Ventana Mystery Audiobook (Free)

She’s a burglar’s daughter and a first-rate private investigator. And if the tools of Veronica Ventana’s trade add a PhD in lockpicking, thank her parents, the infamous Vintners, who produced kitty burglary a course act.

It’s 3:30 a.m. when Bink Hanover bursts into Ronnie’s house reeking of liquor and dread. Outside are four Uzi-toting thugs and a femme fatale who have chased him to her door. Before you say “safe house,” Ronnie recruits Blackie Coogan, ex-boxer and over-the-hill PI. Then she’s off to get the girl whom Bink calls the “Black Widow,” whose previous well-connected lovers possess all enter into unexpected riches-and unexpected death. Today Ronnie is usually bull’s-eye in a nasty high-stakes video game. From San Francisco’s rooms to its boardrooms, she’s race to catch a killer prior to the killer catches her.