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After a brutal attack on her sister, Maggie MacGowen searches L.A. for the gunman
When Maggie MacGowen was a girl, her sister Emily lived the life of a leftist radical on the run from the FBI. Twenty-two years after the FBI finally caught her, Emily lives in Los Angeles, a doctor at a free clinic that tends to the city's down and out. When one of her old radical buddies comes out of hiding and surrenders to the police, their long-ago crimes become front-page news. Emily calls Maggie, now a documentary filmmaker, and asks her to come visit. By the time Maggie arrives in Los Angeles, Emily is nearly dead.
The bullet, delivered point-blank in broad daylight, sent Emily into a coma. It seems a random act of violence, but Maggie digs deeper. She finds dark secrets in her sister's past, and a conspiracy that won't end until all those who ask questions are silenced.
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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 would-be murderer in this sharply written mystery. Although beloved by her colleagues and community, Emily has a formidable list of enemies including the FBI, a couple who believe she killed their son, former activists and politicians. These comprise the initial list of suspects. Numbered among her friends are some of the most influential people in the city and, contrary to Maggie's hope, the evidence indicates that one of them is the would-be assassin. Her investigation takes her through skid row, into the past and their family's antiwar activism and into a murderous trap from which she barely escapes. Maggie is up against an assailant ready to kill and determined to reveal some secrets about Emily's politics that could destroy the only thing she has left--her reputation. Hornsby's cinematic eye for detail, witty dialogue and credible surprise ending yield a compelling and evocative read.
