Wendy Hornsby, Author . Perseverance $14.95 (261p) ISBN 978-1-56474-482-1
Last seen in A Hard Light
(1997), documentary filmmaker Maggie MacGowen struggles to honor the final request of her late husband, LAPD Det. Mike Flint, to solve a particularly frustrating cold case, in Edgar-winner Hornsby's sixth Maggie...
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Wendy Hornsby, Perseverance (SCB, dist.), $14.95 paper (280p) ISBN 978-1-56474-496-8
Edgar-winner Hornsby's enthralling seventh Maggie MacGowen mystery (after 2009's In the Guise of Mercy) takes the documentary filmmaker to France. Late one night in the parking lot of a Malibu, Calif., supermarket, an erratic old woman with "a...
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Wendy Hornsby, Author Crippen & Landru Publishers $42 (185p) ISBN 978-1-885941-65-7
Edgar-winner (for best short story) Wendy Hornsby gathers 10 stories and one essay into her Nine Sons: Collected Mysteries, which offers readers both whodunit thrills and thoughtful explorations into the darker regions of the human heart. Former
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Wendy Hornsby, Author Onyx Books $3.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-451-40245-5
Homicide detective Lt. Roger Tejeda, on medical leave because of partial amnesia, investigates a murder he fears is linked to a series of killings five years earlier. This is ``a sharp-witted thriller that leans hard on coincidence,'' said PW . ``The
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Wendy Hornsby, Author Dodd Mead $0 (256p) ISBN 978-0-396-09084-7
This tightly controlled first mystery novel is set in the California oceanside town of Santa Angelica, where the mugging death of wealthy widow Margaret Byrd sets off shock waves that reach to the highest level of the city's bureaucracy. Part of...
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Wendy Hornsby, Author Dutton Books $16.95 (300p) ISBN 978-0-453-00710-8
Hornsby ( No Harm ) brings back doughty California homicide detective Lt. Roger Tejeda and his wealthy girlfriend Kate for a sharp-witted thriller that leans hard on coincidence. In a grisly reprise of a series of sex crimes Tejeda investigated five
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Wendy Hornsby, Author Dutton Books $18 (256p) ISBN 978-0-525-93472-1
Left lying for hours in a rain-splattered Los Angeles alley with a bullet in her brain, political firebrand Dr. Emily Duschamps is comatose. Her sister Maggie MacGowen, a filmmaker/amateur sleuth last seen in No Harm , searches Los Angeles for the...
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Wendy Hornsby, Author Dutton Books $19 (272p) ISBN 978-0-525-93615-2
In L.A. to film a documentary about children, San Franciscan Maggie MacGowen (introduced in Edgar-winning Hornsby's Telling Lies ) meets a 14-year-old hooker who calls herself Pisces. Reminded of her own teenaged daughter, Maggie feeds Pisces and...
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Wendy Hornsby, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-525-93817-0
While settling into L.A. life with her lover, homicide detective Mike Flint, independent filmmaker Maggie McGowen, seen last in Midnight Baby , continues to compile an impressive portfolio as an amateur sleuth. For Maggie's film on growing up in the
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Wendy Hornsby, Author Dutton Books $21.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-525-93998-6
Street life and the surreal political culture of the 1970s combine explosively, making Edgar Award winner Hornsby's fourth Maggie MacGowen novel (following Bad Intent) a tour de force. Independent filmmaker Maggie has a contract with a TV network to
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Wendy Hornsby, Author Dutton Books $22.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-525-94067-8
In her fifth adventure, documentary filmmaker Maggie MacGowen (77th Street Requiem, etc.) is caught up in an intricate and long-reaching web of family problems. With her lover, LAPD detective Mike Flint, only months away from retirement and burnt...
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Wendy Hornsby. Perseverance (SCB, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (254p) ISBN 978-1-56474-526-2
In Edgar-winner Hornsby’s well-constructed eighth Maggie MacGowen mystery (after 2010’s The Paramour’s Daughter), documentary filmmaker Maggie, now teaching at California’s Anacapa Community College, finds the college’s unpopular president, ex-congre
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Wendy Hornsby. Perseverance (SCB, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-56474-542-2
In Hornsby’s intricate ninth Maggie MacGowen mystery (after 2012’s The Hanging), filmmaker Maggie uncovers a film shot by her late father that may provide clues to the unsolved murder of Trinh “Tina” Bartolini, the mother of an old friend of Maggie’s
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Wendy Hornsby. Perseverance, $15.95 trade paper (204p) ISBN 978-1-56474-576-7
Edgar-winner Hornsby’s captivating 10th Maggie MacGowen mystery (after 2014’s The Color of Light) finds the L.A.-based filmmaker and her crew working on an agricultural documentary at her family’s farm in Normandy, France. When the skeletal remains...
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Wendy Hornsby. Perseverance, $15.95 trade paper (274p) ISBN 978-1-56474-599-6
In Edgar-winner Hornsby’s enjoyable 11th Maggie MacGowen mystery (after 2016’s Disturbing the Dark), a puzzling message sends the investigative filmmaker from her home in Paris to Venice, where she finds her fiancé, French businessman and Eurozone...
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Wendy Hornsby, read by Donna Postel. HighBridge Audio, unabridged, digital download, nine hrs., $18.87 ISBN 978-1-62231-100-2
Book three in Edgar Award–winner Hornsby’s Maggie McGowan series, originally written in 1995, catches the independent TV journalist just after she relocates from San Francisco to Los Angeles to be with her lover, Mike Trent, an L.A. police detective
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Wendy Hornsby. Perseverance, $15.95 trade paper (248p) ISBN 978-1-56474-607-8
Hornsby’s winning 12th Maggie MacGowen mystery (after 2018’s Number 7, Rue Jacob) finds documentary filmmaker Maggie living with her dashing diplomat lover, Jean-Paul Bernard, and his 18-year-old son in Jean-Paul’s Paris apartment. As Maggie tries...
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