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Officer Down
A Samanatha "Smack" Mack Mystery
Theresa Schwegel
ISBN: 0312942117
Mass Market Paperback
Publication Date: October 2006
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
List Price: $6.99
Synposis
(from the publisher): The Chicago
Police Department says Samantha Mack shot her partner, Fred, during the
confusion of a bungled pursuit. Mack says it was their quarry, a
violent pedophile named Marco Trovic, who fired the deadly round in
that darkened room. But Mack was knocked out and can’t really say
what happened.
When no evidence of Trovic is found on the scene and the bullet is
shown to have come from Mack’s own gun, the Department labels
Fred’s death as a case of friendly fire. Back at the station, it
seems no one believes Mack’s account. Not Internal Affairs
investigator Alex O’Conner, and not even Mack’s lover,
whose best attempts at support leave her as cold as the wind whipping
across Lake Michigan.
With the Department looking to quiet the bad press, Mack can’t
count on anyone to help her track down Trovic. Even if she can somehow
find him in the dark recesses of Chicago’s underworld, can she
prove that Trovic was the shooter? With her back to the wall and her
career at stake, now it’s time for Mack to take matters into her
own hands to clear her name—and avenge her partner’s death.
Additional Notes:
1st mystery in this series.
Hardcover: St. Martin's Minotaur 0312343140, September 2005.
