Cornwell, Patricia Daniels

The front / Patricia Cornwell - New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons , c2008. - 180 p. ; 22 cm.

Monique Lamont, a politically ambitious D.A., uses a speech at the John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Mass., to launch an implausible anticrime initiative she's labeled No Neighbor Left Behind ("The decline of neighborhoods is potentially as destructive as global warming"). Lamont orders her main investigator, Win Garano, to reopen the case of a blind English woman, Janie Brolin, murdered in Watertown in 1962. Lamont suspects Brolin may have been the first victim of the notorious Boston Strangler. Solving this crime will galvanize the public into caring about crime in general. Not incidentally, it will also bolster her chances of ascending to greater power. Lamont's irresponsible approach to her job may strike some readers as bizarre, while Garano's ambivalence about his boss adds little to his appeal.

9780399154188

2008005812


Police---Massachusetts----Fiction


Massachusetts----Fiction


Mystery fiction

PS3553.O692 / F77 2008

MYS COR