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When a famous TV journalist is murdered, the media spotlight falls on the Barn. Captain Aceveda orders everyone to be on their best behavior - which hampers the style of Vic Mackey and his Strike Team. As with the popular TV show, interweaving cases affect everyone on the force, with suspenseful and surprising results.
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MISSING WHITE GIRL--available now!

1:43 PM PDT, May 29, 2007
By the time a writer sits down and starts to work on a novel, a sort of perfect storm of ideas has already occurred.  Some combination of ideas, issues, and concerns has converged upon him or her, and he or she has figured out a way to make those various elements congeal into a single narrative.  Then it’s a matter of figuring out who populates the story, and molding it all into a compelling story that keeps the reader turning pages well into the night.

For my new supernatural Missing White Girl, these were some of the elements I wanted to write about:

The border.  I live a few miles from the U.S./Mexico border, in an area impacted on a large scale by illegal immigration.  However one feels about the immigration issue, it can’t be denied that there are far-reaching effects on both sides of the line.  Characters in the book hold every opinion—there are border humanitarian groups and border vigilante groups—but there are no easy answers to this issue, and the novel doesn’t pretend otherwise.

The modern media phenomenon of the Missing White Girl (and the corollary of the murdered white girl).   As many Americans today probably know the names of Natalee Holloway, JonBenet Ramsay, Laci Peterson and Chandra Levy as John Roberts and Nancy Pelosi and Steven Hadley.  It’s easy to make the argument that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the Speaker of the House and the National Security Advisor have more impact on our day-to-day lives than the unfortunate women mentioned above, but they’ve received less air-time on 24-hour cable news networks and less face-time in national magazines and tabloids.  The tragic cases of these women, and others, generate far more attention than they deserve (beyond, of course, the impact on their families, friends, and communities).  At the same time, equally tragic cases crop up all the time that don’t gain such notoriety.  

The Cabeza de Vaca expedition.  I’ve long been fascinated by the true story of Cabeza de Vaca, one of a small force of Spaniards marooned in the Gulf of Mexico in 1528.  De Vaca was found by an indigenous tribe, from whom he either learned magic or to whom he demonstrated magic already inherent within him.  Eventually escaping, he was reunited with three others from his fleet, also stranded, and together they crossed over much of what would eventually become the American southwest (the first Europeans (and African—one was a Moorish slave) to do so.  They worked their way westward, looking for Mexico, where they would find other Spaniards.  Along the way the magical healing powers they demonstrated made them friends among the native tribes—not quite the “worshipped as gods” cliché, but close to it.  By the time they found their Spaniard brethren, they were accompanied by more than a thousand natives from a wide array of villages, with whom they got along famously.  Ironic, t