Sunrise highway
Sunrise highway
About this book
"In the summer of Star Wars and Son of Sam, a Long Island schoolgirl is found gruesomely murdered. A local prosecutor turns a troubled teenager known as JT from a suspect to a star witness in the case, putting away a high school football star who claimed to be innocent. Forty years later, JT has risen to chief of police, but there's a trail of a dozen dead women that reaches from Brooklyn across Long Island, along the Sunrise Highway, and it's possible that his actions actually enabled a killer. That's when Lourdes Robles, a relentless young Latina detective for the NYPD, steps in to track the serial killer. She discovers a deep and sinister web of connections between the victims and some of the most powerful political figures in the region, including JT himself. Now Lourdes not only has to catch a killer, but maybe dismantle an entire system that's protected him, possibly at the cost of her own life"--
Details
- OL Work ID
- OL19749363W
Subjects
Women detectivesMurderInvestigationFictionFiction, mystery & detective, women sleuthsFiction, mystery & detective, police proceduralNew york (n.y.), fictionPolice corruptionFICTION / CrimeFICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural