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Person of Interest is available in bookstores now. Click through to check out the great reviews and find out where Theresa will be in the coming months.
NEWS
On October 15, 2008 Theresa will receive the Chicago Public Library's 21st Century Award, presented to an emerging writer with ties to Chicago. For details: Tom Wolfe to Receive 2008 Carl Sandburg Literary Award; Theresa Schwegel Selected as 21st Century Honoree.
To read Janet Maslin's stellar NEW YORK TIMES review, click here: Person of Interest.
Person of Interest was selected as one of Publisher's Weekly's Best Books of the Year. See It Here.
| 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... |
| 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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