Rough and Tough, Brigid Quinn, one of the first females
hired by the FBI, is now 60 and retired. Brigid is living
with her husband, Carlos, in Arizona. A call from her
mother telling her that her father is in the hospital with
pneumonia complications has Brigid flying South fast. Her
ex-colleague, Special Agent Laura Coleman, lives in the
area and a call to Laura sets up a reunion.upon her
arrival in in the Sunshine State. and left the Agency.
Strong ties exist between the two women who worked
closely together and when Laura was kidnapped and kept in a
locker for two days, she suffered a breakdown.
She is working, along with an attorney, as an investigator
for the Innocence Project, working with felons on their
Death Row appeals. Laura has worked on and lost three
appeals. The fourth appeal concerns Marcus Creighton,
convicted of killing his wife and the disappearance of his
three children, never found. He has been on Death Row for
15 years and insists he is not guilty. His mistress failed
to corroborate his alibi, and a single fingerprint was found
on the hair dryer found in the water filled tub that
electrocuted his wife. Laura is certain she will be able
to get his conviction overturned. The Governor of Florida,
however, just signed the warrant for Marcus's execution by
lethal injection in five days. It is now a race against the
clock.
Becky Masterman tells a gripping story dealing with capital
punishment and her description of prison life and the death
chamber is chilling. The Quinn family is not close,
rather it is very dysfunctional. Brigid does not have a
relationship with her mother or father, and her brother Todd
is a police officer and not close either. New revelations
come to light along with many twists and turns as Brigid,
Laura and Todd rush to find any evidence that will absolve
Marcus. Will justice be found?
A TWIST OF THE KNIFE is the third in the Brigid
Quinn series
and I look forward to reading the first two. If you ask me
"Do you have any last words?" I say, Bravo!
Ex-FBI agent Brigid Quinn, now happily settled in Tucson,
doesn’t visit her family in Florida much. But her former
partner on the force, Laura Coleman—a woman whose life she
has saved and who has saved her life in turn—is living there
now. So when Laura calls about a case that is not going
well, Brigid doesn’t hesitate to get on a plane.
On leave from the Bureau, Laura has been volunteering for a
legal group trying to prove the innocence of a man who is on
death row for killing his family. Laura is firmly convinced
that he didn’t do it, while Brigid isn’t so sure—but the
date for his execution is coming up so quickly that they’ll
have to act fast to find any evidence that may absolve him
before it’s too late…
A Twist of the Knife, Edgar Award and CWA Gold Dagger
finalist Becky Masterman’s third Brigid Quinn novel, is the
masterful follow-up to Fear the Darkness and Rage
Against the Dying.
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