In the Guise of Mercy (Maggie Macgowen Mysteries)

Documentary filmmaker Maggie MacGowen accepts a legacy bequeathed to her by Mike Flint, her LA cop husband: Find Jesús Ramón, a boy who vanished from Mike’s police car ten years earlier. Filmmaker Maggie MacGowen has taken on many tough assignments over the years. However, when her husband, LA Detective Mike Flint, asks her to take a fresh look at a decade-old unsolved case of a boy who went missing, she isn’t sure that she’s up to the challenge. But how does one say no to a dead man? Maggie seeks information from anyone who has a connection: a spoiled cop, an ex-con taxi dancer, the dead youth’s gang set--the hookers, the cons, the addicts, the homeless and the hopeless--and the good and decent people among them who remain the foundation of a community always in transition, always under siege. The answers Maggie discovers aren’t what she expects, nor is the sometimes deadly opposition from all sides. But she finds strength from her own resilience...and an acceptance of Mike’s final decision.