Windy City Dying: A Marti MacAlister Mystery
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (543 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312320485 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Bonita L. Davis said THE AVENGER. You work all your life trying to make it only to see yourself passed over for jobs that are rightfully yours. At first you grin and bear it until your temper flares and you strike out in anger. It lands you in jail. You do your time and released. Now you're free. Free to avenge all those wrongs done to you. Free to set the record straight. Johnny MacAlister, the cop who put you behind bars, is dead but his widow, Marti is very much alive. Now is the time to punish her with your . "One of the GREATEST female detectives!" according to Tyora Moody. For fans of Detective Marti MacAlister, this latest in the series is a gratifying read - sure to keep the determined reader up in the wee hours of the night. Marti has moved on from the death of her first husband, but unknowingly someone from the past has it out for the deceased cop Johnny McAllister.Bent on revenge and fresh out of prison, Adrian Quinn still feels he was innocent of his horrendous crimes. One by one he hunts down the people he feels were responsible for his dow. A Trip Down Memory Lane The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers In WINDY CITY DYING, Marti McAllister's job as homicide detective in Lincoln Prairie forces her to go back to Chicago, where her husband, also a cop, was killed five years earlier. It seems that one of the men Johnny McAllister helped to put behind bars has an agenda to avenge the wrong he felt was done to him by the system, by the world, and, namely, by Johnny McAllister.Marti and her partner Vik are also reunited with a child from one of their previous cases. Marti and Vik fou
The book's dark theme and grim portrayal of juvenile services won't be to every taste, but fans of challenging, socially conscious mysteries will be well rewarded.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. The tension mounts as Marti and Vik realize that several troubled children she once counseled, now in their teens, could provide clues to Graciela's murder. Marti and Ben's respectable suburban life, while far from uniformly rosy, makes a striking contrast to the precarious existence of kids caught up in the welfare system. . Marti and her husband, Ben, have relocated to Lincoln Prairie, Ill., a Chicago suburb, where Marti hopes she can escape big city crime as a "peace officer." But the release from prison of a vengeance-seeking criminal from her past dashes this hope. From Publishers Weekly Bland's 10th mystery to feature African-American detective Marti MacAlister (after 2001's Whispers in the Dark) provides plenty of family interest but is a bit li
Windy City Dying is another taut, absorbing read from one of the masters of mystery fiction.. He's been accused of murder, but the Jose that Marti remembers could not have committed such a terrible crime. There's LaShawna, now seventeen and with her own four-year-old daughter; Padgett, all grown up at twelve but still living with his alcoholic mother; and then Jose, fifteen, who's in the most trouble of them all. Marti MacAlister, Eleanor Taylor Bland's popular African-American heroine, is forced to confront some extremely personal demons from long ago-her husband Johnny MacAlister is long-buried, but now someone from Johnny's past is back, looking for him, and Marti fears she knows who it might be.In the meantime, her work as a suburban Chicago homicide detective has taken her back in time in another way, to a group of children she once counseled, each now four years older and with four more year's worth of problems. Her first step is to find out what could have happened in the past four years to lead Jose to such a desperate act, and she hopes her second step will be to prove his innocence.It won't be easy, though; just what's going on with this tight group of kids, and how does it relate to the increasingly foreboding sense of doom Marti gets about the mystery man who's nosing around the remnants of her distant past? She's not sure, but she knows she must figure it all out, an