Southern cross
By: Patricia Cornwell.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
Subjects: Police chiefs -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Fiction; Police -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Fiction; Policewomen -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Fiction; Detective and mystery stories; Richmond (Va.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: The setting is Richmond, Virginia, where Charlotte police chief Judy Hammer has been brought to clean up the police force. In the most difficult assignment of her career and in the face of intense public scrutiny, she finds herself embroiled in a stew of corruption, scandal, and robberies that escalate to murder.