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After a brutal attack on her sister, Maggie MacGowen searches L.A. for the gunman When Maggie MacGowen was a girl, her sister Emily lived the life of a leftist radical on the run from the FBI. Twenty-two years after the FBI finally caught her, Emily lives in Los Angeles, a doctor at a free clinic that tends to the city's down and out. When one of her old radical buddies comes out of hiding and surrenders to the police, their long-ago crimes become...
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Maggie's life is rocked by a mistake from her boyfriend's past After making progressive documentary films for decades, Maggie MacGowen did not expect to fall in love with a Los Angeles cop. But Mike Trent, whom she met while investigating her sister's shooting, is no Los Angeles Police Department stereotype. Tall, with salt-and-pepper hair and a craggy Bogart face, he inspires her to uproot herself and her daughter from San Francisco and move down...
3) No Harm
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After her mother's savage murder, Kate Teague becomes the killer's next target Ash falls on the cemetery like grey snow, blown in from a wildfire that burns a mile off. A crowd has turned out to watch Kate bury her mother, not because they loved her -- nobody loved her -- but out of curiosity. This town has never seen a murder so brutal. Suspecting a mugging gone wrong, the police comb the area for drug addicts. But then they find the rich old lady's...
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Maggie looks into the decades-old murder of a controversial cop A long time ago, Roy Frady was a perfect cop. Now he's perfect fodder for one of Maggie MacGowen's documentaries. Frady worked narcotics in the Seventy-seventh Street Division as part of a unit nicknamed the Four Horsemen. A merry band of iron-fisted brothers, they kept their district clean of drugs until a litany of brutality charges caused their downfall. Not long after, Roy Frady was...
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Maggie investigates the murder of a strange young streetwalker In Los Angeles making a documentary about upscale day cares, Maggie MacGowen visits MacArthur Park to get contrasting footage of the pubescent prostitutes that populate its dark corners. There she meets Pisces, a fourteen-year-old hooker with manners that don't match her profession. As they bond over a plate of pastrami, Maggie talks her into spending the night in a shelter. But Pisces...
6) A Hard Light
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Maggie tries to unravel an art theft that began during the Vietnam War During the chaotic last act of the Vietnam War, three people tried to preserve the art from the French colonial museum in Da Nang. As Viet Cong forces overwhelmed the South Vietnamese, Bao Ngo, Khanh Nguyen, and Minh Tam sped south, in trucks laden with all the treasures of eighteen hundred years of Vietnamese history. Although one truck disappeared, those three made it to Saigon...
7) Half a Mind
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A severed head washes ashore, drawing Kate into a bizarre murder case It's been months since the pistol cracked Roger Tejeda's skull. Though the police officer's memory gaps are beginning to fill in, any strain could endanger his recovery, and his girlfriend-the super-rich, super-intelligent Kate Teague-has been slowly nursing him back to health. He's still a long way from returning to work, but jogging down the beach one afternoon, he sees a crowd...
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Acclaimed Agatha Award-winning author Nancy Pickard presents this anthology of original mystery stories by some of the most distinguished mystery writers of the 20th century, including Dorothy Cannell and Sharyn McCrumb. Compiled in honor of the most beloved crime writer of all time- Agatha Christie- this collection includes:
• " His Tears" " by Marilyn Wallace
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