ANNAH TORCH: That Gutshot Smile

by Jim DeFilippi

A comatose prep-school girl is found in a locked room.Across her lap lies a smoking, sawed-off shotgun.Across the room is the smiling, gutshot corpse of her roommate.The beautiful, brilliant, at time brutal Anna Torch must dig out the truth and prove the girl’s innocence.

284 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 16, 2020

About the author

Jim DeFilippi is a crime novelist (DUCK ALLEY, BLOOD SUGAR, JESUS BURNED) and humor writer. His crime novels are all times humorous; his humor writing at times is criminal. Newsday called his stuff “Suspenseful, often hilarious,” Publishers Weekly added, “Excellently paced and imaginatively told,” but his favorite blurb is “Whoa, that was good.”