Dark Lady

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Dark Lady

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction Thriller / suspense fiction Political / legal thriller

Author: Richard North Patterson

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Language: English

Published by: Cornerstone Digital

Published on: 23rd December 2010

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 438 Kb

ISBN: 9781446409213


Setting

The setting is Steelton, a struggling Midwestern town trying to save its decaying inner city by building a major league baseball stadium.

Main Character

Dark Lady introduces Assistant County Prosecutor Stella Marz, who has escaped her alcoholic father and working class background to become head of the Prosecutor's homicide unit. Her ambition is to become County Prosecutor.

Conflict

But this ambition, indeed her very survival, is threatened when her ex-lover Jack Kovak, a drug lawyer, is murdered, and Stella leads the investigation. There are more deaths and revelations about Jack Kovak's dealings with the city's crime lord, and a trail of wrong-doing that implicates officers in law enforcement, possibly within her own office.

Plot Development

As her inquiry draws her into a re-examination of her own complex past, her certainty that she is being watched and followed leads her to fear for her own future.

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