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Lucy O'Malley, born and raised in an Irish Boston family, became a cop just like her father, but instead of staying near home, she is starting her career in Philadelphia's homicide department. After beginning a relationship with Archer Haverill, a Philadelphia blue blood, Lucy lands her first case when her new boyfriend's estranged birth mother, Morgan Reese, now a prominent psychiatrist, is murdered. Of course, suspects abound: Dr. Reese specialized in treating children and had her share of psychotic ex-patients; her colleagues were jealous of the prestigious position to which she was about to be appointed; and she had just informed an ex-lover, who married well and would like to stay that way, that she never did have that abortion all those years ago. Lucy's investigation puts her at the center of a high-society drama, where not even her cop's instincts might be enough to save her completely. Lucy makes a likable heroine, and Geary's blending of a psychological thriller with classic police procedural produces a crime novel with appeal to fans of both subgenres.
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Product Description
With her signature talent for delving into the dark secrets of blue blood America, Nancy Geary delivers a riveting new novel about the mysterious death of a prominent Philadelphia physician. Born in Boston and raised in the rowdy, loving atmosphere of a big Irish family, Lucy O'Malley was destined to follow in her father's footsteps and become a police officer. Now, newly assigned to the homicide unit of the Philadelphia Police Department, she has little time and even less interest in mingling with Philadelphia society. But all that changes when she meets Archer Haverill, heir to a Main Line fortune, and becomes involved in the investigation into his estranged mother's death. Soon Lucy is pulled into the tangled web that is Archer's fractured family and the Main Line society in which an array of suspects lurks, until she finds herself dangerously close to someone capable of ruthless murder.
