77th Street Requiem: A Maggie MacGowen Mystery

Street life and the surreal political culture of the 1970s combine explosiv ely, making Edgar Award winner Hornsby's fourth Maggie MacGowen novel (foll owing Bad Intent) a tour de force. Independent filmmaker Maggie has a contr act with a TV network to produce a documentary on the unsolved 1974 murder of L.A. cop Roy Frady, who made a name for himself in the LAPD's anti-gang unit, CRASH. She's especially eager for what the project may tell her about her lover, Detective Mike Flint, who was one of Frady's best friends. More than one gang member, striving for street credibility, claimed to have kil led Frady, but none of their stories held up. Now, as Maggie talks to forme r wives and lovers of the dead cop, she finds that the trail leads to the S ymbionese Liberation Army and the kidnapping of Patti Hearst. Then, just as she thinks she might be getting a handle on Frady's life and death, her so urces are killed off. As devastating as the trip back to 1974 is for Maggie , it becomes even more harrowing for Mike, who must own up to the follies o f his youth. Hornsby's powerful writing and her equally thought-provoking s tory blend to make this one of the most gripping, compelling mysteries of t he year.

Product Info

ISBN: 0451406753

ISBN-13: 9780451406750

Publisher: Onyx

Year: 1996

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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