IN THE GUISE OF MERCY (A Maggie Macgowen Mystery) - Softcover

Wendy Hornsby

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564744825 ISBN 13: 9781564744821

Publisher: Daniel & Daniel Publishers, 2015

Synopsis

A decade has passed since Maggie MacGowen s last investigation in the pages of Hornsby s award-winning noir series. Gritty and streetwise, yet compassionate, these mysteries appeal to America s current fascination with realistic crime stories. Filmmaker Maggie MacGowen has taken on many tough assignments over the years. However, when she discovers a note from her newly dead husband, Detective Mike Flint, urging her her to take a fresh look at a decade-old unsolved case of a boy who went missing, she isn t sure that she s up to the challenge. But how does one say no to a dead man? Maggie seeks information from anyone who has a connection: a spoiled cop, an ex-con taxi dancer, the dead youth s gang set the hookers, the cons, the addicts, the homeless and the hopeless and the good and decent people among them who remain the foundation of a community always in transition, always under siege. The answers Maggie discovers aren t what she expects, nor is the sometimes deadly opposition from all sides. But she finds strength from her own resilience...and an acceptance of Mike s final decision.

About this title

About the Author:

Wendy Hornsby is the author of eight critically praised and award-winning mysteries, six of them about Maggie MacGowen. She is also a short story Edgar Award winner, and she lives in Southern California, where she is a professor of history at Long Beach City College.

From Publishers Weekly:

Last seen in A Hard Light (1997), documentary filmmaker Maggie MacGowen struggles to honor the final request of her late husband, LAPD Det. Mike Flint, to solve a particularly frustrating cold case, in Edgar-winner Hornsby's sixth Maggie MacGowen mystery. Jesús Ramón, a young gang member who was one of Mike's informants, disappeared after leaving Mike's car in 1999. Despite Mike's best efforts, he was never able to determine what happened to Jesús. Inheriting Mike's personal files and using Mike's many friends as well as her own resources, Maggie treats this cold case as one of her own investigative reports. Though Mike's former colleagues appear eager to help, they also warn her to watch six (watch her back). Hornsby handles the diversity of cultures—gangs, barrios, homeless, cops, filmmaking—adeptly as Maggie's probing stirs up a toxic residue of unsolved killings that again proves fatal. It's good to see Maggie back in action. (Sept.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Daniel & Daniel Publishers
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1564744825
• ISBN 13: 9781564744821
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 261