A funny, idiosyncratic cast of characters and a cunningly developed series of murders are the highlights in an otherwise middling sequel to 1998's Blue, which introduced social psychologist and amateur shamus Blue McCarron. Here Blue and her...
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Abigail Padgett, Author Mysterious Press $17.95 (196p) ISBN 978-0-89296-488-8
This powerful and suspenseful debut features an unusual heroine, San Diego Juvenile Court child abuse investigator Bo Bradley. A closet manic-depressive, Bo fights to keep her job and her equilibrium when she is assigned the case of a four-year-old...
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Abigail Padgett, Author Mysterious Press $18.95 (245p) ISBN 978-0-89296-489-5
In this stirring, insightful follow-up to Child of Silence , San Diego child abuse investigator Bo Bradley puts her job and her life in jeopardy with her efforts to clear an accused child molester. When three-year-old Samantha Franer dies after...
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Abigail Padgett, Author Mysterious Press $19.95 (278p) ISBN 978-0-89296-580-9
When poison from a tropical plant puts eight-month-old Acito, whose name means ``little turtle,'' into a San Diego hospital, child abuse investigator Bo Bradley is drawn into her third suspenseful case (following Strawgirl). According to Andy...
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Abigail Padgett, Author Mysterious Press $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89296-613-4
Moonbird is a six-year-old boy whose future is at the heart of the latest in Padgett's increasingly compelling series featuring manic-depressive sleuth Bo Bradley. Bo meets Moonbird at Ghost Flower Lodge, a psychiatric rehabilitation facility run by
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Abigail Padgett, Author Mysterious Press $21.5 (288p) ISBN 978-0-89296-614-1
Bo Bradley, 41, works for San Diego's Child Protective Services and suffers from a manic-depressive illness which she controls with medication. Bo's fifth appearance (following Moonbird Boy, 1996) is an uneven tale in which the investigator draws on
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