title: Dirty Laundry (Sofie Metropolis, Book 2)
author:  Tori Carrington 
description: Five months have passed since Sofie Metropolis caught her would-be husband, "Thomas-the-Toad," flagrante delicto with her maid of honor on their wedding day in Carrington's <i>Sofie Metropolis</i> (2005). In this cute if predictable sequel, the zany Greek-American from Astoria, Queens, is a PI-in-training, working on mundane cases for her uncle Spyros's investigative agency. When Apostolis Pappas (aka Uncle Tolly), the popular elderly owner of the neighborhood dry cleaners, goes missing, Sofie jumps at the chance to find him. The only catch is Uncle Tolly might have been laundering money for a sexy Italian mobster. Carrington (nom de plume for a Greek-American husband-and-wife writing team) depicts Sofie's world with the nutty sweetness of baklava. With the focus on fun rather than blood, this chick-lite mystery further develops Sophie's relationship with Jake Porter, the handy but possibly dangerous Aussie bounty hunter, who adds just the right amount of delectable sexual tension to this crime confection. <i>(May)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  CHAPTER ONE
  The only good thing about this week was that it was finally coming to an end. Absolutely every work-
  out outfit I owned was dirty because the washer had been broken since the previous Friday and I
  couldn’t afford to get it fixed until the beginning of the following week. I worked late every day this
  week so my brilliant plan was to get up early this morning and go to the laundromat and wash at least
  one load of clothes so I had something clean to wear to work. Go figure it would be the one stinking
  night that I’d forget to charge my phone, so while I was sleeping, it died and the alarm never went off.
  I woke up in a complete panic. I could