Murder in Greenwich Village - A Manhattan Mystery

Informationen zum Autor Lee Harris is the author of the mystery novels featuring ex-nun Christine Bennett, who first appeared in The Good Friday Murder, an Edgar Award nominee that was adapted in 2004 as a TV movie entitled Murder Without Conviction. Harris also writes the Manhattan Mystery series, which debuted with Murder in Hell’s Kitchen and continued with Murder in Alphabet City. In 2001, she received the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for her distinguished contribution to crime writing. Lee Harris’s e-mail address is [e-mail]. She also has a website that she shares with three other mystery authors, and it can be found at www.NMOMysteries.com. Klappentext "Detective Jane Bauer is a most welcome addition to the ranks of fictional cops.” -Peter Robinson When NYPD detective Jane Bauer and her team check in for their new assignment! they reopen a cold case that's a real killer. Ten years earlier! police responding to a spate of late-night 911 calls from Greenwich Village discovered a young African American undercover cop! Micah Anthony! shot dead on Waverly Place. The killer left no clues! and the murder remains an inscrutable mystery . . . except for two things: Anthony had infiltrated a lucrative gun-trading operation in the city! and it seemed likely that he knew and trusted the killer. So begins an investigation that leads Jane from Village brownstones to middle-class Queens! from wealthy Sutton Place to sinister subway tunnels! as a mastermind of murder resumes operations-and every path is mined with menace. "Harris knows a lot about cops and a lot about women and she knows how to plot a good mystery.” -Stephen Greenleaf 1   THE WHIP HAD gotten his gold leaf. By virtue of commanding the Cold Case Squad at 137 Centre Street, which since its formation the previous fall had cleared at least three tough cases spectacularly, Capt. Francis X. Graves had been promoted to deputy inspector. Det. Jane Bauer, whose team of three detectives had been responsible for two of those cases being put to rest, learned of Graves’s good fortune on her return from her first trip to Paris in March with the man she loved illicitly and passionately, a deputy chief. Her partner, Gordon Defino, had also been promoted from third-grade to second-grade detective, and deservedly so. The third member of the team, Sean MacHovec, had earned a bump to second, but was living under a cloud because of an incident at the end of the last case, and had not received the promotion.   With all the changes, returning to the job after only a short time away was jolting. But the squad was doing its job and although not a permanent fixture, would continue its work, sparing the detectives a return to ordinary precinct squad activity. Results paid off. Jane herself had been moved up two grades to first after their first case.   Spring had been splintered. Jane had to appear in court for a long-delayed trial, thus requiring a refresher on the case. It was a nasty one, with ornery activists on both sides trying the patience of the judge and luring the various media to the courthouse, inside and out. As Jane’s testimony came to an end, Defino was called to do the same on an old case of his. Graves was worried: his best team out of commission for weeks. With his ambition, he needed a steady stream of results.   When the trials and vacations were out of the way, MacHovec returned from his temporary transfer to another team, which appeared devastated to lose him. Defino would have liked to have seen the last of him, even if not as strongly as the day they met. Today was a fine day in May with the smell of spring in the air, as the team sat in the whip’s office to receive their new assignment. Deputy Inspector Graves, a handsome, articulate man who frequently played police spokesman before the TV cameras, looked more gorgeous than usual, and happier. Something...

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• Autori: Lee Harris
• Editore: Fawcett Book Group
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 28.02.2006
• EAN: 9780345475961
• ISBN: 978-0-345-47596-1
• Pagine: 304
• Dimensioni: 107 mm x 173 mm x 25 mm
• Serie: Manhattan; Manhattan Mysteries (Paperback; Manhattan; Manhattan Mysteries (Paperback
• Categoria: Narrativa > Gialli