The Apostrophe Thief
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Publisher Description
In her last week on the force, a strange robbery draws Marian Larch into a backstage murder case
A madman points a gun at the NYPD's Marian Larch, and prepares to pull the trigger. She charges, disarming him before he can fire the shot. The gun skids to the feet of Agent Curt Holland, who presses it against the madman's head and blows him away. It was the right move, but that doesn't make it legal. To save Holland's career, Larch testifies that she was the one who fired the final shot. She doesn't care what happens; she doesn't want to be a cop anymore.
Even when Internal Affairs rules the shooting a righteous kill, Larch plans to quit at the end of the week. But a lot can happen in seven days. When an actress friend asks Larch for help after her Broadway theater is robbed, NYPD's toughest female detective stakes out the Great White Way—and discovers a highly theatrical murder.
The Apostrophe Thief is the 5th book in the Marian Larch Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The veteran author of You Have the Right to Remain Silent and other mysteries features Detective Sergeant Marian Larch of the NYPD Ninth Precinct in an unconvincing police procedural. As the story begins, Marian is in crisis. Plagued by a two-faced superior and an incompetent partner, she is about to quit the force, but first she must lie to protect a remote, sarcastic FBI agent who killed a suspect he hated during a shootout. She has been sleeping with the agent since the shootout, solely to satisfy ``sheer animal need.'' The mystery she must unravel involves a group of seemingly random items, including a jacket that once belonged to Sarah Bernhardt, that have been stolen from a Broadway theater currently hosting a play called The Apostrophe Thief . The hunt takes Marian into the oddball world of memorabilia collectors, and the murder of a prime suspect challenges her deductive powers, but the policework here is a lot less realistic than the backstage settings. ( July )
