The House by the Side of the Road

Concerning Angela

“She’s not walking off with my private financial info in her head,” he slurred. “She’s a loose end and loose ends don’t just hang out there in my business.”

Angela knows something, but what? Even she doesn’t know. But the gangsters who planned the import of automatic weapons into Chicago through gangland operators last year want to find her. In the meantime, she is living and working at the house by the side of the road, safe and sound, hoping to resume life as usual now that Rooney Hardy is out of the way.

She and her housemates, along with Helen and Parker, Frances and Donald, are all behind her and ready for action.

If you like Louise Penney’s Three Pines, you’ll love The House by the Side of the Road, where a community of family by choice has come together to work and live. Set outside Chicago, the housemates, and their foes, are in and around the city, through historic buildings and neighborhoods, fast on the trail of Joey Caruso, who directs gangs throughout the city on large-scale crimes that make them, mostly Joey and the other leaders, millions. There is no mercy in Joey’s vocabulary, which keeps all his minions on their toes, and keeps the threat to Angela, her biological family and her family at the house, in danger.