Shallow Graves

Daughter of a Vietnamese mother and an Italian-American father, Mau Tim was born Amatina Danucci?granddaughter of Boston?s most feared mob boss, Tommy ?The Temper" Danucci. Now the family wants Cuddy to turn his insurance investigation into a hunt for her murderer. They even provide Cuddy with an assistant: Primo T. Zuppone, a man of sensitive tastes and subtleties, whose specialty is taking care of ?situations.? With Primo as his leather-coated guardian angel, Cuddy goes to work on his suspects, from the owners of the modeling agency to Mau Tim?s last boyfriend, a slick, cynical advertising executive. But the clues are leading Cuddy in another direction?to a scenario of murder almost too terrible to imagine.....