77th Street Requiem [electronic resource]
Hornsby, Wendy2014
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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 found with a 9-mm slug in his skull. The case remained unsolved for two decades. One of the Four Horsemen was Mike Trent, who went on to become a homicide detective and the love of Maggie's life. Through the years, Frady's file never left his desk, and as he approaches retirement he vows to close the case. Maggie plans a documentary about Mike's investigation, unaware that she and her camera will find things in his past that are too ugly to be known.
Main title:
77th Street Requiem [electronic resource] / Wendy Hornsby
Author:
Hornsby, Wendy, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Head of Zeus, 2014
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Series:
The Maggie MacGowen Mystery
Biography/History:
Wendy Hornsby (b. 1947) is the Edgar award-winning creator of the Maggie MacGowen series. A native of Southern California, she became interested in writing at a young age and first found professional success in fourth grade, when an essay about summer camp won a local contest. Her first novel, No Harm, was published in 1987, but it wasn't until 1992 that Hornsby introduced her most famous character: Maggie MacGowen, documentarian and amateur sleuth. Hornsby has written seven MacGowen novels, most recently The Paramour's Daughter (2010), and the sprawling tales of murder and romance have won her widespread praise. For her closely observed depiction of the darker sides of Los Angeles, she is often compared to Raymond Chandler. Besides her novels, Hornsby has written dozens of short stories, some of which were collected in Nine Sons (2002). When she isn't writing, she teaches ancient and medieval history at Long Beach City College.
ISBN:
9781784085698
Language:
English
BRN:
321086
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | Libby, by Overdrive - eBook |