Book description
The setting is Steelton, a struggling Midwestern town trying to save
its decaying inner city by building a major league baseball stadium.
Dark Lady introduces Assistant County Prosecutor Stella Marz, who has
escaped her alcoholic father and working class background to become head
of the Prosecutor's homicide unit. Her ambition is to become County
Prosecutor. But this ambition, indeed her very survival, is threatened
when her ex-lover Jack Kovak, a drug lawyer, is murdered, and Stella
leads the investigation. There are more deaths and revelations about
Jack Kovak's dealings with the city's crime lord, and a trail of
wrong-doing, that implicates officers in law enforcement, possibly
within her own office. As her inquiry draws her into a re-examination of
her own complex past, her certainty that she is being watched and
followed, leads her to fear for her own future. Richard North
Patterson has written a number of novels including the international
bestsellers,
Degree of Guilt
, Eyes of a Child
, The Final Judgement
, Silent Witness
, No Safe Place
, Dark Lady
and Protect and Defend
. His novels have won the Edgar Allan Poe Award and the Grand Prix de
Littérature Policière. He and his wife, Laurie, live with their family
in San Francisco and on Martha's Vineyard.
