Lockout - Hardcover

O'Donnell, Lillian

3.21

33 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399139214 ISBN 13: 9780399139215

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1994

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Lieutenant Norah Mulcahaney's latest mystery finds her under a cloud of suspicion for the shooting of an unarmed mugger and trying to recreate the events leading up to the murder of a rock star's brother.

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From Publishers Weekly:

In her 30th novel, O'Donnell ( Pushover ) sets NYPD Lieutenant Norah Mulcahaney to solve problems in all facets of her life in this fast-paced procedural. When music star Bo Russel discovers his brother Ben shot to death in a recording studio booth, Norah is called to the scene. While she assesses the high-visibility crime, police officers from all over New York rally at City Hall against an all-civilian review board. Watching on TV, Norah recognizes one of her own men, Al Sutphin, who should have been on duty at the time but seems to be carrying a placard. Norah is asked by her superiors to identify anyone she knows on the videotape; tension builds in the squad room as personnel wonder whether or not she fingered Sutphin. At the same time, the widowed, 40-ish Norah has applied to adopt a baby. On another case, she shoots a man she believes to be armed, only to have Sutphin, next on the scene and the investigating officer, tell her he can't find a weapon. Internal affairs initiates an investigation, which she fears will jeopardize her chances of adoption. Challenging Norah with the demands of the murder investigation, the internal affairs probe and her hopes for a child, O'Donnell crafts a gripping, multilayered tale. Mystery Guild selection.
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From Kirkus Reviews:

Lieutenant Norah Mulcahaney of New York's Fourth Homicide Division (Pushover, 1992, etc.) is trying to cope with a clutch of spiky problems. One is the murder of Ben Russell, shot to death in the studio where his fading rock-star brother Bo and his group, the Earth Shakers, were recording the new songs Bo hoped would put him back on top of the charts. Even more worrying is the investigation under way into Norah's killing of a would-be rapist in Central Park; a vanished gun; the enmity of one or more members of her squad; threatening, anonymous phone calls at home; and, above all, Norah's fear of a glitch in the adoption process that will at last bring her the child she has longed for. Norah solves the murder with a nervy, imaginative, not always convincing ploy. There are other, more satisfying endings as well in this mostly engrossing, no-frills procedural from a dependable veteran. (Mystery Guild main selection) -- Copyright �1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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