num_pages: 304
description: PI Holland Taylor knew he was being used. High-level friends at police headquarters were dangling clues from a recent murder case in front of him, stringing him along. Reluctantly investigating the slaying, Taylor was led to the offices of Minnesota gubernatorial candidate and media darling Carol Catherine Monroe. She needed Taylor's help to diffuse a scandal that could rattle the skeletons in her closet. But the murder of an innocent campaign worker hit Taylor where it hurt and taught him a simple truth: Some sins can never be forgotten - or forgiven...
language: English
title: Penance
titlecomplete: Penance (Holland Taylor, #1)
genres: Audiobook, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 711
series: Holland Taylor
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Shamus Award
category: Best First PI Novel, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best First Novel
publisher: Berkley