ROGAN'S WIFE
When Detective Chris Rogan is blown to bits by a car bomb in Bay City, Chief Hunter assures the widow that the BCPD will do everything in their power to bring the killer to justice. But a week later they haven't uncovered a single clue - it's as if they are sweeping Rogan's murder under the rug... they way they sweep the gang violence in old town under the rug. Usually when a cop is killed, the entire force goes on the war path... Why is this case different?
Maddy Rogan asks her dead husband's partner, Jim Wooley, and discovers that Rogan was under investigation from Internal Affairs. He was the most corrupt cop on the force. Maddy can't believe it. How could the nice guy she married be a bad guy?
Maddy decides to leave her peaceful suburban neighborhood to clear her dead husband's name. Using inside information from Wooley she tracks Chris' final days, searching for the identity of his killer. The trail leads her into the dark alleys of gang-infested old town, where she must gain the trust of gang leader Pike to survive. Grieving widow by day, gang-girl by night, Maddy discovers a link between the gang violence and real estate mogul Elliott McBain's redevelopment plans for old town. Re-inventing herself as a society woman, Maddy infiltrates McBain's inner circle and uncovers a conspiracy that reaches to the highest level of city government... and the identity of the assassin who murdered her husband. The conspiracy has underestimated Rogan's wife.
Maddy discovers that Rogan wasn't the most corrupt cop on the force - he was the most honest cop on the force - the "Serpico" who was about to go public and bring down the conspiracy. But who do you go to when the entire police force is corrupt?
Maddy decides the only answer is to take the law into her own hands... to re-invent herself as an engine of destruction and bring down the conspiracy.
ROGAN'S WIFE by William C. Martell
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