Bøger af Lise Rosenthal

An abortionist is found dead in his clinic, and in his lapel is a cloisonné rose whose stem curls around to spell the word "Life." When pro-life detective Katie Kelly and her partner Isaac Flores are chosen to lead the investigation, Kelly finds herself wishing for the good old days solving car thefts and drug shootings. Is the murderer someone she knows? Police Chief Frank Taylor - and the rest of the world - think it must be, and Kelly is very much afraid that it is. Is it the clinic's security guard who walked out on his job the week before the murder? Is it the vet who returned from Afghanistan to try (unsuccessfully) to talk his wife out of an abortion? What is Kelly's friend Peggy not telling her? The doctor's widow has just filed for divorce. She has a million dollar life insurance policy - and an air tight alibi. Kelly's women friends from the Tuesday afternoon quilting group urge her to think creatively. With their help and encouragement, Kelly juggles her personal feelings, police force politics, and the demands of home and family to bring the murderer to justice.

"A person can't even lay his head down on his own planet," complains a homeless man, as Sgt. Katie Kelly and her partner Isaac Flores investigate the murder of yet another denizen of Fresno's world renowned street population. Kelly, whose detective skills and sense of humor endeared her to many in A Stitch in Crime, explores every possibility, but the victims continue to fall. Every approach seems to lead to a dead end. Is the killer from the local Satanist community? Is he the disgruntled citizen who keeps popping up wherever they look? And what about Los Aztecas, the up and coming gang (or perhaps, as they claim, just a cultural group) with whom Flores' son has recently become involved? In the course of her investigation, Kelly meets and encourages youngish lovers Lexi and Lucky who are struggling to get clean, sober, employed and housed. But just when things are looking hopeless, the Tuesday Afternoon Quilters come up with a different perspective. Can Kelly and Flores identify the killer and stop him before he strikes again?