Gail L. (divine-ms-m) reviewed A Private Crime (G K Hall Large Print Book Series) on + 312 more book reviews
When a sniper firing into a crowded East Side flea market kills a teenage mother and a baby, Lt. Norah Mulcahaney and her homicide team are assigned to the case, which has sparked public outrage. Norah quickly discovers that the gunfire had indeed been aimed at the victims and that the girl had been using the baby carriage to transport cocaine. The drug link leads to a distraught and vengeful mother, a drug middleman and, somewhat improbably, to a congressman running for the Senate. The case hits close to home when a missing piece of evidence implicates Norah's trusted sergeant and when her lover, TV newsman Randall Tye, who is conducting his own investigation and with whom she has quarreled about their conflicting careers, disappears. Norah, occasionally the "ice queen" of Randall's accusations, is a strong, determined woman holding her own in a male-dominated police force. A good read for a sleepless night or a day at the beach, the plot is interesting and plausible, and the characters real enough to care about.
