Frankie MacMillan

Detective Sergeant/Lieutenant Frances "Frankie" MacMillan is a recurring character in the Free Spirits series, first appearing in Bridget's Calling and returning in Laurie's Liberation and Sophie's Wisdom. Originally, she was part of a team engaging in stings to arrest prostitutes in Stallbrook - including her partner Tom Antonelli and another detective named Arnie - but which repeatedly failed to arrest Bridget, who then turned the tables on MacMillan and negotiated a deal to become a confidential informant in exchange for the police turning a blind eye to her escorting. The information that Bridget provided MacMillan helped to advance her career, and she became the youngest Sergeant in the department's history. Bridget would later provide information about Will Gentile's abusive wife Marla, leading MacMillan to expose Marla's false accusations against him and have her committed to an out-of-state psychiatric hospital. By the events of Laurie's Liberation, MacMillan has been promoted to Lieutenant, and put in charge of the Major Case Unit of the Stallbrook Police Department. When the San Antonio police seek to find and arrest Abbie Nolan, MacMillan proposes allowing her to reach her destination at Stallbrook, where she and other officers can arrest her with minimal risk; the ploy works, and after MacMillan and another officer take Abbie into custody for extradition to San Antonio. In Sophie's Wisdom, she investigates the discovery of human remains at a parking garage, encased in a concrete pillar over twenty years before. With help from Sophie Giuliani and her staff at the University of Stallbrook's genetics lab, she is able to discover the identity of both the victim and her killer, and from there determine the course of events leading to the victim's death.
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