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Detective Mike Turner hates corrupt cops. He's back in LAPD's Internal Affairs, assigned to a special surveillance squad where he doggedly pursues a trio of uniformed thugs preying on those they've sworn to protect and serve.
Turner is a streetwise cop who follows their trail of death and senseless violence from the environs of Hollywood and the rural valleys north of Los Angeles to its bloody conclusion in the mountains of central California. Despite interference from the department and betrayal by those closest to him, Turner chases the heavily-armed renegades until the hunter becomes the hunted, and the investigation nearly costs him not only the career he loves, but his life.
In the midst of the chaos, Turner attempts to keep his personal life intact. Complications arise when he takes on the responsibility of caring for his neighbor, an elderly retired cop. And when his former lover returns, he finds himself attracted to another woman who has a myriad of reasons to hate and fear him.
The members of Turner s surveillance squad are a blend of talent and turmoil as they plot with him to track down their wayward brothers in blue. Despite their eccentricities, they are dedicated cops who know law and order can t survive if the LAPD's thin blue line is compromised.
Turner is a streetwise cop who follows their trail of death and senseless violence from the environs of Hollywood and the rural valleys north of Los Angeles to its bloody conclusion in the mountains of central California. Despite interference from the department and betrayal by those closest to him, Turner chases the heavily-armed renegades until the hunter becomes the hunted, and the investigation nearly costs him not only the career he loves, but his life.
In the midst of the chaos, Turner attempts to keep his personal life intact. Complications arise when he takes on the responsibility of caring for his neighbor, an elderly retired cop. And when his former lover returns, he finds himself attracted to another woman who has a myriad of reasons to hate and fear him.
The members of Turner s surveillance squad are a blend of talent and turmoil as they plot with him to track down their wayward brothers in blue. Despite their eccentricities, they are dedicated cops who know law and order can t survive if the LAPD's thin blue line is compromised.
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About the Author:
CONNIE DIAL retired after nearly
twenty-seven years with the Los Angeles
Police Department. She is a veteran cop
who rose through the ranks from patrol
officer to area commanding officer of
the LAPD s Hollywood Division.
Early in her career, she worked as an
undercover intelligence officer, a narcotics
detective who prowled the streets
of Hollywood, and she supervised a surveillance
detail targeting bad cops. She
knows firsthand the business of doing
police work and successfully leading
others to get the job done. The Hollywood
Chamber of Commerce gave her
one of their Women of Distinction
awards, and as a captain, she was rated
highly by her officers.
The Broken Blue Line is her second
Mike Turner novel. The first was Internal
Affairs.
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twenty-seven years with the Los Angeles
Police Department. She is a veteran cop
who rose through the ranks from patrol
officer to area commanding officer of
the LAPD s Hollywood Division.
Early in her career, she worked as an
undercover intelligence officer, a narcotics
detective who prowled the streets
of Hollywood, and she supervised a surveillance
detail targeting bad cops. She
knows firsthand the business of doing
police work and successfully leading
others to get the job done. The Hollywood
Chamber of Commerce gave her
one of their Women of Distinction
awards, and as a captain, she was rated
highly by her officers.
The Broken Blue Line is her second
Mike Turner novel. The first was Internal
Affairs.
Connie Dial brings a fresh, authentic
voice to the genre . . . a talented writer
with an observant eye and a good ear for
dialogue. --THOMAS PERRY, Edgar Award winning mystery writer
Relegated to busting cops for soliciting sex, Sergeant Mike Turner (Internal Affairs, 2009) finally gets a case with real promise a renegade cop on dubious disability linked to illegal guns and armed robbery.
The investigation broadens, uncovering a militia-like clan of thugs involved in contract killings and random violence. There s nothing Turner hates more than abuse of the shield, and he ll use every asset his good looks, keen observational skills, uncanny instinct to get closer to perpetrators, in this case using Beverly Conner, the suspect s attractive mother, a barmaid at a law-enforcement watering hole. Turner s magnetism proves as much curse as boon. He s lonely, sure, and this thing that s started back up between him and Miriam, his on-again/off-again, doesn t sit well, especially when she moves in and begins to clutter up his apartment. But when the suspect s mom falls for him, routine undercover work heats up. Worse still, turns out Miriam s been involved with the primary suspect, putting her loyalty in question. The investigation expands but, almost as quickly, a botched bust meant to generate leads on two cops who ve gone on the lam jeopardizes the careers of Turner and his fellow investigators. As if his professional and love lives aren t stressful enough, lack of separation between the two is going to put him in his grave. His neighbor, a senior ex-cop who walks Turner s dog and doles out love advice, faces relocation to a retirement home at the behest of his son, a police commander. This sets Turner at odds with a superior and gets him an unlikely housemate. Meanwhile, his partners the apocryphal Reggie, constantly filling notebooks which Turner would love to get his hands on, and the volatile Miller, prone to act before he thinks are a source of concern in a close-knit department where a concealed identity risks exposure and death at every step. Suspects disappear. Alleged conspirators turn up dead. The circle of corruption and murder expands beyond the Los Angeles city limits. Ultimately, Turner s Achilles heel is his heart. Surrounded by perverts and sycophants, he wants to make things right for his neighbor, for the woman in his life and for the victims of escalating, senseless violence, but the bad guys are too close to the people close to his heart. His pursuit of these wolves in sheep s clothing goes beyond the thin blue line of duty.
Fans of hard-boiled detective fiction may not be impressed, but there s soft-boiled satisfaction to the departmental intrigue and the meting out of justice, Sergeant Turner style. --Kirkus
Relegated to busting cops for soliciting sex, Sergeant Mike Turner (Internal Affairs, 2009) finally gets a case with real promise a renegade cop on dubious disability linked to illegal guns and armed robbery.
The investigation broadens, uncovering a militia-like clan of thugs involved in contract killings and random violence. There s nothing Turner hates more than abuse of the shield, and he ll use every asset his good looks, keen observational skills, uncanny instinct to get closer to perpetrators, in this case using Beverly Conner, the suspect s attractive mother, a barmaid at a law-enforcement watering hole. Turner s magnetism proves as much curse as boon. He s lonely, sure, and this thing that s started back up between him and Miriam, his on-again/off-again, doesn t sit well, especially when she moves in and begins to clutter up his apartment. But when the suspect s mom falls for him, routine undercover work heats up. Worse still, turns out Miriam s been involved with the primary suspect, putting her loyalty in question. The investigation expands but, almost as quickly, a botched bust meant to generate leads on two cops who ve gone on the lam jeopardizes the careers of Turner and his fellow investigators. As if his professional and love lives aren t stressful enough, lack of separation between the two is going to put him in his grave. His neighbor, a senior ex-cop who walks Turner s dog and doles out love advice, faces relocation to a retirement home at the behest of his son, a police commander. This sets Turner at odds with a superior and gets him an unlikely housemate. Meanwhile, his partners the apocryphal Reggie, constantly filling notebooks which Turner would love to get his hands on, and the volatile Miller, prone to act before he thinks are a source of concern in a close-knit department where a concealed identity risks exposure and death at every step. Suspects disappear. Alleged conspirators turn up dead. The circle of corruption and murder expands beyond the Los Angeles city limits. Ultimately, Turner s Achilles heel is his heart. Surrounded by perverts and sycophants, he wants to make things right for his neighbor, for the woman in his life and for the victims of escalating, senseless violence, but the bad guys are too close to the people close to his heart. His pursuit of these wolves in sheep s clothing goes beyond the thin blue line of duty.
Fans of hard-boiled detective fiction may not be impressed, but there s soft-boiled satisfaction to the departmental intrigue and the meting out of justice, Sergeant Turner style. --Kirkus
voice to the genre . . . a talented writer
with an observant eye and a good ear for
dialogue. --THOMAS PERRY, Edgar Award winning mystery writer
Relegated to busting cops for soliciting sex, Sergeant Mike Turner (Internal Affairs, 2009) finally gets a case with real promise a renegade cop on dubious disability linked to illegal guns and armed robbery.
The investigation broadens, uncovering a militia-like clan of thugs involved in contract killings and random violence. There s nothing Turner hates more than abuse of the shield, and he ll use every asset his good looks, keen observational skills, uncanny instinct to get closer to perpetrators, in this case using Beverly Conner, the suspect s attractive mother, a barmaid at a law-enforcement watering hole. Turner s magnetism proves as much curse as boon. He s lonely, sure, and this thing that s started back up between him and Miriam, his on-again/off-again, doesn t sit well, especially when she moves in and begins to clutter up his apartment. But when the suspect s mom falls for him, routine undercover work heats up. Worse still, turns out Miriam s been involved with the primary suspect, putting her loyalty in question. The investigation expands but, almost as quickly, a botched bust meant to generate leads on two cops who ve gone on the lam jeopardizes the careers of Turner and his fellow investigators. As if his professional and love lives aren t stressful enough, lack of separation between the two is going to put him in his grave. His neighbor, a senior ex-cop who walks Turner s dog and doles out love advice, faces relocation to a retirement home at the behest of his son, a police commander. This sets Turner at odds with a superior and gets him an unlikely housemate. Meanwhile, his partners the apocryphal Reggie, constantly filling notebooks which Turner would love to get his hands on, and the volatile Miller, prone to act before he thinks are a source of concern in a close-knit department where a concealed identity risks exposure and death at every step. Suspects disappear. Alleged conspirators turn up dead. The circle of corruption and murder expands beyond the Los Angeles city limits. Ultimately, Turner s Achilles heel is his heart. Surrounded by perverts and sycophants, he wants to make things right for his neighbor, for the woman in his life and for the victims of escalating, senseless violence, but the bad guys are too close to the people close to his heart. His pursuit of these wolves in sheep s clothing goes beyond the thin blue line of duty.
Fans of hard-boiled detective fiction may not be impressed, but there s soft-boiled satisfaction to the departmental intrigue and the meting out of justice, Sergeant Turner style. --Kirkus
Relegated to busting cops for soliciting sex, Sergeant Mike Turner (Internal Affairs, 2009) finally gets a case with real promise a renegade cop on dubious disability linked to illegal guns and armed robbery.
The investigation broadens, uncovering a militia-like clan of thugs involved in contract killings and random violence. There s nothing Turner hates more than abuse of the shield, and he ll use every asset his good looks, keen observational skills, uncanny instinct to get closer to perpetrators, in this case using Beverly Conner, the suspect s attractive mother, a barmaid at a law-enforcement watering hole. Turner s magnetism proves as much curse as boon. He s lonely, sure, and this thing that s started back up between him and Miriam, his on-again/off-again, doesn t sit well, especially when she moves in and begins to clutter up his apartment. But when the suspect s mom falls for him, routine undercover work heats up. Worse still, turns out Miriam s been involved with the primary suspect, putting her loyalty in question. The investigation expands but, almost as quickly, a botched bust meant to generate leads on two cops who ve gone on the lam jeopardizes the careers of Turner and his fellow investigators. As if his professional and love lives aren t stressful enough, lack of separation between the two is going to put him in his grave. His neighbor, a senior ex-cop who walks Turner s dog and doles out love advice, faces relocation to a retirement home at the behest of his son, a police commander. This sets Turner at odds with a superior and gets him an unlikely housemate. Meanwhile, his partners the apocryphal Reggie, constantly filling notebooks which Turner would love to get his hands on, and the volatile Miller, prone to act before he thinks are a source of concern in a close-knit department where a concealed identity risks exposure and death at every step. Suspects disappear. Alleged conspirators turn up dead. The circle of corruption and murder expands beyond the Los Angeles city limits. Ultimately, Turner s Achilles heel is his heart. Surrounded by perverts and sycophants, he wants to make things right for his neighbor, for the woman in his life and for the victims of escalating, senseless violence, but the bad guys are too close to the people close to his heart. His pursuit of these wolves in sheep s clothing goes beyond the thin blue line of duty.
Fans of hard-boiled detective fiction may not be impressed, but there s soft-boiled satisfaction to the departmental intrigue and the meting out of justice, Sergeant Turner style. --Kirkus
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- PublisherPermanent Press
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1579622003
- ISBN 13 9781579622008
- BindingHardcover
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