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Harper
August 2012
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Featuring: Darlene O'Hara
320 pages
ISBN: 0061373559
EAN: 9780061373558
Kindle: B0073FLONC
Hardcover / e-Book
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Thriller Police Procedural | Suspense
When a home health attendant, Paulette Williamson, appears
at Homicide South in Manhattan, she's introduced to the
NYPD's Detective Darlene O'Hara and skeptically reports the
confession of a senior citizen struggling with Alzheimer's.
Gus Henderson, a former junkie and petty criminal, claims he
murdered and buried his former partner-in-crime in a park
off Avenue B more than a decade ago, a lowlife who fell off
the grid and hasn't been seen since. The city agrees to
excavate the alleged scene of the crime, and the police find
a body—just not the one they were looking for. The cops unearth the skeleton of a ten-year-old boy, neatly
dressed and buried ceremoniously with a comic book, a CD,
some pot, and booze. Instead of an easy open-and-shut case,
O'Hara is faced with finding the murderer of a child, and
the pressure is on the newly promoted detective to prove
herself. The trail takes O'Hara from the seediest corners of
the city and its cast of misguided players—a coven of
preteen potheads in Tompkins Square Park, a sleazy art house
photographer in Chelsea—to a retirement community in South
Florida. Driving headlong into the dark urban underbelly to find a
killer, O'Hara uncovers a tribe of criminals who brazenly
prey on the weakest members of the population, and she must
stop the cycle before yet another child is lost to the
depths of the city.
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