When NYPD sergeant Ray Dixon nudges PI Gwenn Ramadge into hiring a suspended rookie detective for help in an investigation, the Brooklyn investigator, last seen in Lockout, is drawn into a bitter-but for readers, delicious-brew of murder and police corruption. Although young Narcotics cop Jayne Harrow has a drinking problem, she knows she was framed when busted for drugs and put on indefinite suspension. Jayne, whose complaints to higher-ups about her partner have won her only suggestions to transfer out (e.g., "maybe something in Traffic"), welcomes the opportunity to help Gwenn run surveillance on a young au pair, whose employers suspect her of putting their child at risk. After Jayne is found-in Gwenn's rental car-dead of carbon-monoxide poisoning, the speedy police verdict of suicide sets Gwenn's antennae quivering. Poking around in Jayne's life, Gwenn discovers that the young woman had been pursuing her own lines of inquiry-lines that now put Gwenn in danger and make her wonder just how far she can trust her friend Ray. The prolific O'Donnell (Used to Kill) expertly brings together multiple plot lines in this satisfying, moving mystery.
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A MURDER OF CONVENIENCE
Manhattan P.I. Gwenn Ramadge knows how it feels to be down and out. So when her boyfriend, an NYPD detective, asks her to help a disgraced colleague, Gwen gladly obliges. Rookie undercover narcotics detective Jayne Harrow was framed in a phony drug bust. But her real crime was threatening to turn in a rogue cop who murdered a small-time drug dealer known as the Raggedy Man. Now Gwenn sets out to examine the case.
But Jayne is soon found asphyxiated in her car, officially a suicide. Although Gwenn is certain Jayne was murdered, proving it won't be easy--not with corrupt cops out for the kill. Luckily, Gwenn has a few good tricks up her sleeve, if only she doesn't wind up like Jayne . . . and the Raggedy Man.
"Gwenn Ramadge is good at her job. She's thorough, smart, and cool-headed. . . . Lillian O'Donnell can write about real life and real people better than almost anyone in this genre."
--Mostly Murder
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