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    The Acquittal

    By Anne Laughlin

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    Ex-Chicago cop and new PI Josie Harper has been hired by an outside group to clear the name of publisher Lauren Wade, recently acquitted of the murder of her lover. That means finding the real killer, a task made more difficult by Lauren’s unwillingness to cooperate and a large family problem—Lauren’s parents have been kidnapped for a ransom she can no longer pay. Josie has a big challenge of her own: how to redeem herself after losing her job as a detective. When Josie and Lauren join forces to rescue the parents, they discover they make a great team, in more ways than one.

    Will Josie’s troubled past come back to haunt her? And who did kill Lauren’s lover?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBold Strokes Books
    Release dateNov 3, 2014
    ISBN9781626392601
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    Anne Laughlin

    Anne Laughlin is the author of three novels from Bold Strokes: Veritas, The Collectors (under a pen name), and Runaway. Veritas won a Goldie award for lesbian mystery in 2010, and The Collectors was shortlisted for a Lammy Award in lesbian erotica in 2012, won a Goldie award, and was produced as an audio book through Audible.com. Runaway has been shortlisted for a 2013 Lammy Award.Anne’s short fiction has appeared in a number of anthologies. She is a finalist in the 2013 short fiction contest of the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival.Anne was named a fellow in the Lambda Literary Foundation’s Emerging Writer program in 2008. She has attended writing residencies at Ragdale and Vermont Studio Center for the Arts. She lives in Chicago with her partner, Linda.

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      The premise becomes difficult to believe-but I enjoyed the characters and the twists and turns of the mystery!
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      Good book The 1st I've read by this author I will be reading more of I will be reading more of her books I definitely Recommend this book