A Clean Kill

SUMMARY: Manhattan's Upper East Side isn't a neighborhood that NYPD detective April Woo and Precinct Captain Mike Sanchez associate with grisly crimes--until the wife of a celebrity chef is slashed to death in her fashionable town-house. The obvious suspect is her longtime nanny. Then the victim's best friend is murdered as well. The suspect in the case--the nanny. As April's investigation unfolds, so do the victims' privileged secrets. And each one of them cuts like a knife. NYPD Detective April Woo finds herself caught between New York City powerhouse politics and ethnic expectations when a young Chinese-American mother is beaten unconscious, and her newborn son is gone. The woman's domineering husband wants to control the entire investigation. The mayor wants the case solved yesterday. And April's new boss is just waiting for her to make a career-killing mistake. To find the missing child, and find the motive behind the mystery, April must return to her old Chinatown precinct --- and uncover the hidden shame of a hostile community --- before someone decides to make this case her last ... April risks her career to investigate the disappearance of a young doctor in Central Park. When Maslow Atkins goes for a quick run and doesn't come back, April's usually flawless cop instincts tell her that he is alive. She orders a massive search using the city's best K-9 tracking unit, though it means going outside her jurisdiction and outside her authority. It takes the brutal murder of a witness for April's hunch to be believed ... yet she still finds herself no closer to unraveling the lethal tangle of family secrets that obscures the most disturbing crime she has ever faced. The novels featuring NYPD Detective April Woo have been praised as polished and intriguing (Orlando Sentinel) and gripping psychological drama (Publishers Weekly). Now, April Woo faces her most challenging investigation yet. A man and woman lie dead on a snowy Manhattan sidewalk. The primary suspect is the murdered womans husband, African-American ex-football star Rick Liberty. For Detective Woo, its a homicide case engulfed in a media storm of race, class, sex, and celebrity. But somewhere, buried in all the publicity, lies the truth. And an extremely dangerous killer... "When Maslow Atkins goes for a quick run and doesn't come back, April's usually flawless cop instincts tell her that he is alive. She orders a massive search using the city's best K-9 tracking unit, though it means going outside her jurisdiction and outside her authority. It takes the brutal murder of a witness for April's hunch to be believed ... yet she still finds herself no closer to unraveling the lethal tangle of family secrets that obscures the most disturbing crime she has ever faced."--BOOK COVER Just when NYPD lieutenant Bernardino was ready to retire, he won the lottery. But when word of his good fortune gets out, the sharks start circling... and one of them wants to collect on an old debt.
Now, April Woo must track her friend's murderer by searching her own tightly knit family of fellow officers for motives-and a suspect. A suspect who's enraged, elusive-and who's driving April in a terrifying search for the truth...

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"Now, April Woo faces her most challenging investigation yet. A man and woman lie dead on a snowy Manhattan sidewalk. The primary suspect is the murdered woman's husband, African American ex-football star Rick Liberty. For Detective Woo, it's a homicide case engulfed in a media storm of race, class, sex, and celebrity. But somewhere, buried in all the publicity, lies the truth. And an extremely dangerous killer ..."--BOOK COVER For NYPD detective April Woo, the retirement party for her former boss and mentor, Lieutenant Bernardino, is bittersweet. As they commemorate Bernarddino's thirty-eight years on the job, cops and friends wish him well with bad jokes and good memories. Then they send him out into the night and into the hands of a cold blooded killer With the wedding of her own close friend rapidly approaching, NYPD detective April Woo and her partner, homicide specialist Mike Sanchez, race against time to find a madman who is targeting New York City's glamorous young brides, cutting them down in the midst of the wedding ceremony. Original. New York detective April Woo investigates the kidnaping of a Chinese woman's adopted baby. The woman is unable to identify her attacker and the husband cannot provide adoption papers. An illegally adopted baby? No one in Chinatown is talking. By the author of Judging Time The wife of a rich banker and her lover are murdered in New York and suspicion falls on the husband. The case is given to April Woo, an Asian-American policewoman who has just made sergeant, no small feat in her male-dominated organization. By the author of Loving Time What links the startling crimes? Who's next to die? With the wedding of April's friend fast approaching, April and homicide specialist Mike Sanchex sift through the evidence for clues to the killer's identity. NYPD Detective April Woo-the heroine of Leslie Glass's Tracking Time, Stealing Time, and Judging Time-is back to solve the case of a serial killer who targets young New York City brides. The morning Heather Rose Popescu finally resolved to set her life in order, she lost her baby, ended up in the hospital, and became the subject of an intense police inquiry. At fifteen minutes after midnight on January sixth, when Merrill Liberty took a phone call at her table in Liberty's Restaurant, she had thirty minutes to live. Just before twilight on a balmy September New York evening, Dr. Maslow Atkins set out for a jog in Central Park and never came back. April Woo hunts a deranged killer targeting brides