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"""...nailed the culture of a Portland cop...beautifully written, and suspensefully told."" ~Mystery Lover, Verified Reviewer When a boy raps on Detective Burgess's car window summoning him to a burning commercial building now serving as a mosque, Burgess rushes through the intensifying flames to rescue a screaming woman and her baby locked in a closet. The young mother survives, but suffers traumatic muteness. Autopsy shows the infant was gravely ill, suggesting someone was trying to keep mother and child away from hospitals that might have asked questions. Questioning suspicious¿…mehr

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"""...nailed the culture of a Portland cop...beautifully written, and suspensefully told."" ~Mystery Lover, Verified Reviewer When a boy raps on Detective Burgess's car window summoning him to a burning commercial building now serving as a mosque, Burgess rushes through the intensifying flames to rescue a screaming woman and her baby locked in a closet. The young mother survives, but suffers traumatic muteness. Autopsy shows the infant was gravely ill, suggesting someone was trying to keep mother and child away from hospitals that might have asked questions. Questioning suspicious¿ uncooperative refugees¿ members of a motorcycle gang¿ and shady businessmen¿ results in threats to Burgess's family, newly grown by two adopted children. Burgess persists, certain that finding justice for the child and mute mother will solve everything, until a witnesses draws him and his team into a building . . . booby-trapped to explode. ""An incredible cast of characters and a plot that keeps you guessing to the very last page. Kate Flora is a master of the genre."" ~Skye Writer, Verified Reviewer "". . . the pace ramps up on page one and continues throughout the book. The side stories are so much to the richness of the tale. Wholeheartedly recommend."" ~Verified Reviewer THE JOE BURGESS MYSTERIES Playing God The Angel of Knowlton Park Redemption And Grant You Peace Led Astray A Child Shall Lead Them A World of Deceit "
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The author of twenty-four books and many short stories, Maine native Kate Flora has been a finalist for the Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, and Derringer awards. She won the Public Safety Writers Association award for nonfiction and twice won the Maine Literary Award for crime fiction. Encircle published her domestic thriller, Teach Her a Lesson, in May 2023, and will release her new political suspense thriller, Burn the Diaries and Run, in October 2024. Flora is a founding member of the New England Crime Bake and the Maine Crime Wave and runs the blog Maine Crime Writers at mainecrimewriters.com. Her nonfiction focuses on aspects of the public safety officers' experience. She divides her time between Massachusetts and Maine, where she gardens and cooks and watches the clouds when she's not imagining her character's dark deeds.