Cleo Coyle: A Brew to a Kill

A Brew to a Kill


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Greenwich Village coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi is rolling with a popular new trend, until someone close to her is driven to kill The Village Blend s Muffin Muse coffee truck is all the rage. But a fatal hit-and-run and a shocking death at a food truck catered wedding give Clare a clue that something bitter is brewing. Then she opens a bag of imported coffee beans and finds ten pounds of rocks the kind that will earn you a twenty-year jail sentence. Is her ex-husband and business partner smuggling Brazilian crack? Is her staff now in danger? To clear up this murky brew, Clare must sweet-talk two federal agents, dupe a drug kingpin, stake out a Dragon Boat festival, and teach a cocky young undercover cop how to pull the perfect espresso all while keeping herself and her baristas out of hot water. Coffee. It can get a girl killed."

Set over the course of twenty-four hours, "Guapa"follows Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, as he tries to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and social upheaval. Rasa spends his days translating for Western journalists and pining for the nights when he can sneak his lover, Taymour, into his room. One night Rasa's grandmother the woman who raised him catches them in bed together. The following day Rasa is consumed by the search for his best friend Maj, a fiery activist and drag queen star of the underground bar, Guapa, who has been arrested by the police. Ashamed to go home and face A Brew to a Kill pdf his grandmother, and reeling from the potential loss of the three most important people in his life, Rasa roams the city s slums and prisons, the lavish weddings of the country s elite, and the bars where outcasts and intellectuals drink to a long-lost revolution. Each new encounter leads him closer to confronting his own identity, as he revisits his childhood and probes the secrets that haunt his family. As Rasa confronts the simultaneous collapse of political hope and his closest personal relationships, he is forced to discover the roots of his alienation and try to re-emerge into a society that may never accept him."


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Author: Cleo Coyle
Number of Pages: 370 pages
Published Date: 06 Aug 2013
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780425255506
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