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From Publishers Weekly In Harris's enjoyable third Dirty Business mystery (after 2009's The Big Dirt Nap ), Paula Holliday, amateur sleuth and gardening professional of Springfield, Conn., learns that one of her best clients, Caroline Sturgis, is actually Monica Jane Weithorn, the Fugitive Mom who escaped prisonwhere she was serving time for drug dealing25 years earlier. Paula, whose landscaping business is suffering in the current bad economy, had been considering going into partnership with Caroline. Caroline's distraught husband hires Paula to discover who turned his wife in to the authorities. Sgt. Mike O'Malley, a Springfield cop and Paula's friend, wants to know more, too, ditto Paula's journalist friend, Lucy Cavanaugh, who plans to do a story on Monica/Caroline. First-person flashbacks from Monica/Caroline add a depth missing from Paula's previous outing. (Apr.) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review "Fast, funny dialogue, clever description and a good mystery make Harris' latest a very strong, entertaining cozy. With excitement and a surprise ending, this one's a winner. Four stars!" --Romantic Times Magazine Done : ? Fixed : ?