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Last Known Address
Out
July 7 2009
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Detective Sloane Pearson
is new to the Sex Crimes Division but no stranger to being treated like
an incompetent blonde by her hardened male co-workers. She’s
also no stranger to hard-to-crack cases, and her latest is as tough as
they come: A rapist is on the prowl, dragging women to deserted
building sites or vacant apartment buildings peppered all over downtown
Chicago, and forcing them to fight---knowing, of course, that
he’ll win.
When a real estate agent Sloane knows is attacked by the violent
predator, Sloane finds herself taking a case that threatens her secret
plans to leave her long-time lover. Her personal bond with the victim
and a would-be relationship with a man she interviews along the way
lead Sloane down a dangerous path---one that poisons the investigation
as well as her personal life.
Sloane’s balancing act topples when her father falls ill.
Between coping with his weak heart and following the few weak leads she
has, her case begins to go the way that many rape cases go: The victims
fall away, one by one, suddenly unsure of what they saw or unwilling to
relive the horrifying moments again and again.
When Sloane helps a hungry young Sun-Times reporter declare the case
serial, she loses support: Her bosses demand she get a suspect or move
on. Sloane stays on the case, though---no matter how much it strains
her personal relationships. Even her partner claims she’s in
too deep: He doesn’t believe there’s an arrest on
the planet worth a cop’s life. Sloane disagrees:
Someone’s got to take up the fight.
From the worst slums of Chicago’s west side to the glittering
Loop skyscrapers, Sloane finds no shortage of suspects. As she loses
everything she’d called home, she can only hope to find the
rapist before she also becomes a victim. |
| Even in a good
cop’s family, some secrets have to run deep….
Detective
Craig McHugh spends his nights undercover, neck-deep in an
off-the-books gang case. But for all his wife Leslie knows,
he’s
distant. Distracted. Probably sleeping under some other
woman’s covers.Wrapped up in the case, Craig has no idea how
dangerously his home life is slipping. Leslie’s teetering
toward a divorce filing, and their seventeen-year-old daughter Ivy is
on a collision course with trouble—illegal drugs, bad boys,
worse behavior …
While
Craig treads a thin line between solving his case and losing
his life, the family fabric wears thin, and none of the McHughs
realize they’re creating a perfect opportunity for a friendly
stranger to tear it to shreds.And when Leslie starts making undercover
moves of her own, she has no idea her actions could force her husband
over the line
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For Officer Ray Weiss, part of the experience of being a rookie on the
force is undergoing an initiation rite in order to prove his allegiance
to his fellow cops. Weiss's assignment-burglary-is especially risky,
knowing how deeply it would disappoint his straight- edged lieutenant
father. But he goes through with the late-night scam anyway, and winds
up wondering how to explain finding storeowner Petras
Ipolitas’ corpse. When Weiss wants to know what happened, he
gets cold shoulders from his coworkers, and soon his only ally is
Detective Sloane Pierce—the one woman who wants the answers
that could end his career. Feeling confused and betrayed, and fearing
for his life, Weiss is then called on to make a difficult choice-if
Ipolitas’ real killer does not stop him first. |
Samantha
"Smack" Mack, a chain-smoking, hard-drinking Chicago police officer,
and her partner and ex-lover, Fred, storm a pitch-dark tenement house.
Minutes later, what’s supposed to be the quick arrest of
convicted child molester Marko Trovic turns into a shot in the dark
that winds up killing Fred. Police officials decree that Smack's
"friendly fire" killed him, but she's sure there were others in the
room with them that night. Reeling from grief, Smack is given
administrative leave, but offered little support from anyone including
her married lover, detective Mason Imes. A determined Smack realizes
busting Trovic will be her problem alone: a meddling Internal Affairs
operative harasses her, the Sarge threatens to confiscate her badge,
and Mason says they're going to close the case. Persistence and
detective work fueled by righteous rage lead Smack to a guilty
informant and an elaborate drug ring supervised by an ever expanding
cast of suspects, some much closer to her than she ever imagined. |
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