![]() ![]() ![]() But it’s getting harder and harder to keep her cover stories straight and to know whom to trust. ![]() All this, while sending coded dispatches to the circling Pinkerton agents to keep them from closing in.Īlma’s enjoying her dangerous game of shifting identities and double crosses as she fights for a promotion and an invitation back into Delphine’s bed. In disguise as the scrappy dockworker Jack Camp, this should be easy-once she muscles her way into the local organization, wins the trust of the magnetic local boss and his boys, discovers the turncoat, and keeps them all from uncovering her secrets. When product goes missing at their Washington Territory outpost, Alma is tasked with tracking the thief and recovering the drugs. Trained in espionage by the Pinkerton Detective Agency-but dismissed for bad behavior and a penchant for going undercover as a man-Alma now works for Delphine Beaumond, the seductive mastermind of a West Coast smuggling ring. It is 1887, and Alma Rosales is on the hunt for stolen opium. Painstakingly researched and pulsing with adrenaline, Carrasco’s debut will leave you thirsty for more.” -Lyndsay Faye, author of The Gods of GothamĪ vivid, sexy barn burner of a historical crime novel, The Best Bad Things introduces readers to the fiery Alma Rosales-detective, smuggler, spy full of unforgettable characters and insatiable appetites. "Sexy, fun, serious and unputdownable." -Bethanne Patrick, The Washington Post **Finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Lambda Award in Bisexual Fiction** ![]()
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