Devil's Food

Anthony Award Finalist: A skip tracer chases an embezzler to Florida-and finds herself entangled with bikers and the IRS-in this thriller "packed with humor" ( Booklist).

With her low-level law-enforcement career on the rocks, it's make-it-or-break-it time for zaftig Loretta Kovacs. She's been assigned to the ragtag Parole Violators Search Unit, a.k.a. the Jump Squad. All her buttons are pushed when she goes undercover as a desperate dieter at a Florida fat farm in order to nab an embezzler who's a perfect size 2. But untangling the mysteries surrounding this case is going to be harder than passing up a pastry...

"Bruno's characters are more than just quirky dressing for the plot... It moves fast and furious, but along the way his characters' struggles with their own doubts and failings anchor the reader to them." - The Nashville Banner

"A divertingly comic entertainment with a bittersweet bite." - Kirkus Reviews

" Devil's Food is good, grainy crime writing, a little bit like New Jersey's answer to Elmore Leonard." - The Advocate (Greenwich, CT)