The thin edge

The thin edge

Peggy Townsend

Book - 2019

"Disgraced crime reporter Aloa Snow is scrambling to get her life back on track by doing what she does best: investigating hard-to-solve cases. But the latest one is personal. The son of her friend Tick - aging anarchist, confidant, and unofficial colleague - has been accused of a high-profile murder. The victim is Corrine Daniels, ex-prosecutor and wife of a heroic but now-paralyzed FBI interrogator. Corrine had enemies, but she also had a secret lover in Tick's son, who, without an alibi, is now directly in the cops' crosshairs. Luckily, Aloa's got a lock on others who may have had a reason for murder - reasons that plunge her into a world of vigilante justice and a horrific, decades-old crime. It's only when Alo...a's investigation turns threatening that she realizes she's closing in on the killer faster than she imagined. Now that she's being pushed toward the edge, Aloa fears that there's nowhere to go but down --Publisher description.

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Subjects
Women journalists > Fiction.
Secrecy > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
False arrest > Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Genres
Detective and mystery fiction
Thrillers (Fiction)
Published
Seattle : Thomas & Mercer [2019]
Language
English
Main Author
Peggy Townsend (author)
Physical Description
253 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN
9781503903234
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

In Townsend's entertaining sequel to 2018's See Her Run, Tick, one of "a trio of aging anarchists known to the denizens of San Francisco's North Beach as the Brain Farm," needs the help of his friend Aloa Snow, a journalist for an online newsmagazine. Tick's junior college professor son, Burns Hamlin, is a person of interest in the recent stabbing murder of Corrine Davenport. Corrine, who had a fling with Burns, was the wife and primary caregiver of respected former FBI agent Christian Davenport, who's now a paraplegic as the result of an automobile accident. Snow's research creates more questions than answers and leads her to a religious cult, the Church of the Sacrificial Lamb. Townsend reveals Aloa's foibles, such as the error in judgment that led to her disgrace and firing by the L.A. Times two years earlier, without slowing the narrative pace. Readers will enjoy her company as she takes them on a tour of foggy San Francisco, from millionaires' mansions to a homeless encampment under a freeway. May she soon return for more adventures. Agent: Heather Jackson, Heather Jackson Literary. (May) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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