An unacceptable death
By: Barbara Seranella
Series: Munch Mancini crime novel
Publisher: Robert Hale; The Crowood Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780709080626
Subjects: Women detectives; Munch Mancini (Fictitious character); Police murders; Police corruption; Revenge; Automobile mechanics; Fiction
Description: Mancini works as an auto mechanic in Santa Monica, has a nine-year-old daughter, and is involved in a relationship with an undercover narcotics detective. Her newfound, straight-world happiness is blasted to pieces, however, when her boyfriend is shot to death in a drug raid. A detective friend on the LAPD enlists Mancini's aid--investigators into the shooting suspect that her boyfriend was killed by dirty cops. Mancini's contact wants her to work as a CI, confidential informant, to ferret out the truth and expose the remaining corrupt cops. Mancini excels at undercover work in a way that cops not born to the street and its incessant game playing can't begin to match. Her descent into the L.A. coke trade is both fascinating and terrifying to witness.