Night Songs: A Gianna Maglione Mystery - Softcover

Mickelbury, Penny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1562800973 ISBN 13: 9781562800970

Publisher: Naiad Pr, 1995

Synopsis

From one alley to the next in the seamy underside of our nation's capitol, the city's top reporter, Mimi Patterson investigates the virtual disappearance of two prostitutes her sources on a potentially huge stroy. Her partner, Lt. Gianna Maglione, head of the city's Hate Crime Unis is fighting mad. Women are being murdered. Just because they are prostitutes, doesn't mean it isn't a hate crime. As the police department relegates the gruesome murders to low priority, Mimi and Gianna once again find themselves racing the clock and each other's professions toward truth and danger. Touted as a follow-on to the sensational insder look at Keeping Secrets Washington, D.C., Night Songs was nominated for a Lambda LIterary Award when first released. In this rerelease, we again hang on as Mickelbury wends her way from headline news to the pages of another Mimi/Gianna Mystery.

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The screech of tires, a woman's screams and tears, gunshots, the moans of the dying--these are some of the night songs in the fast-paced, tightly written second mystery starring Lt. Gianna Maglione, head of the hate crimes unit of the Washington, D.C., police. Yet, some of the book's night songs are melodies of love as Maglione and her lover, reporter Mimi Patterson, cry together with passion over a background of sirens and neighbors' stereos. The book's fictional insider's look at the nation's capital uses the ritualistic slayings of street prostitutes as a vehicle for exploring the shifting priorities of police work, in which, all too often, victims are seen as worthless throwaways. In the ensuing grimly compelling tale of power and privilege, street people, drugs, and despair, Patterson's professional path often leads to head-on clashes with her police lieutenant lover. Whitney Scott

Police Lt. Gianna Maglione, who heads the Hate Crimes Unit in Washington, D.C., insists that a series of hooker murders belongs to her department: someone killed these women just for being women. Her lover, on the other hand, investigates the cases because she wants a good story for her newspaper. Since the two women have collided before in the course of work (Keeping Secrets, Naiad Pr., 1994), the conflicts arising from their parallel pursuits come as no surprise. Occasional grandstanding and amateurish passages weaken the diverse cast, compassionate protagonist, and realistic surrounds. Wait for demand.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Naiad Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1562800973
• ISBN 13: 9781562800970
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1