And Leave Her Lay Dying (Joe McGuire Mysteries #2)

By: John L. Reynolds

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Synopsis: First you bury the victim, then you bury the files. Only difference is, after a year it's easier to find the victim than the files. Lieutenant Joe McGuire and his partner, Ollie Schantz, were once Boston’s most successful homicide team. Now each is crippled in different ways: Ollie confined to his bed...and McGuire restricted to inspecting files of unsolved murders. Irascible as ever, McGuire attacks the dormant files with a vengeance. Soon he uncovers evidence of sloppy police work, including the strange unsolved case of Jennifer Cornell, found drowned in the murky waters of Boston's Fens. Sharing the details of the murder with Ollie Schantz, McGuire assembles a profile of a complex and troubled woman whom someone hated enough to kill. As he traces her past through various levels of Boston society, McGuire juggles his affair with a married woman, the schemes of a slick lawyer bent on revenge, and his own rage and disillusionment as they lead him through the tangled undergrowth of police politics and eventually back to the Fens itself.