Keeping Secrets - Penny Mickelbury - Bog

This first book in the ground-breaking Mimi/Gianna mystery series introduces the protagonists and from the beginning, their natural antagonism takes center stage: Lieutenant Gianna Maglione heads the Hate Crimes Unit of the Washington, DC police department while Mimi Patterson is the city's best known, it not most well-liked, investigative news paper reporter. She sees it as her job to find the truth and tell it--because the public has a right to know. For Gianna, too much information in the public domain can drive a criminal underground, allowing him--or her--to escape justice. Reporters and cops are used to being natural enemies. They expect it. What they don't expect is