THE BLUE HOUR
Tim Hess is a semiretired veteran cop staring at a death sentence-his
own. Detective Merci Rayborn, young enough to be his daughter, is brash,
impatient, and not someone from whom Hess wants to be taking orders. He
certainly isn't planning on falling in love with her.... Together they
must track down a psychopathic killer who's been abducting beautiful
young women from the malls of Orange County. Dubbed the "Purse Snatcher"
for the chilling way he brags about his shockingly distinctive crimes,
he is one of T. Jefferson Parker's most original creations.
RED LIGHT
Two years after the conclusion of The Blue Hour, Merci and her son are
living with her father. She's also dating Mike McNally, a respected
fellow officer. Merci and Mike are the golden couple on the force, and
even if Merci doesn't passionately love him, there's a sort of
comfortable inevitability to it all. But everything explodes when a
young prostitute is found brutally murdered and Mike emerges as the
primary suspect. The lead investigator on the case, Merci must do the
unthinkable--expose and arrest her lover. Sifting through the clues with
a growing sense of panic and outrage in her gut, Merci has to work hard
to balance where the truth is leading her against where her heart is
telling her to go. Meanwhile, an old unsolved case from the sixties is
thrown on her desk--the murder of Patti Bailey, another prostitute with
ties to the force--and the two cases conspire to turn Merci's world
upside down.
