Showing results by author "Becky Masterman" in Women Sleuths

In her hey-day, ex FBI agent, Brigid Quinn, not only worked serial killer cases but became their prize. Small and blond, from a distance she looked vulnerable and slight...the perfect bait to catch a killer. But as Quinn got older, she realised she needed to find a protégé, a younger field agent to take her place. So Quinn trains a 22 year old and lets her loose in the field. The plan works. Until the Route 66 killer not only takes the bait, but kills the bait.

In his landmark novel In Cold Blood, Truman Capote made infamous the murder of the Clutter family that occurred in Kansas in late 1959. Fact: Dick Hickock and Perry Smith were executed for those crimes. Fact: Two months after the Clutter killing, the Walker family were slaughtered in similar circumstances in Florida. Fact: The Walker family murder is still unsolved. In this brilliant, addictive novel, the longtime cold case heats up. Becky Masterman imagines what might have happened then...and who will be the next.

It takes a strong woman to be able to watch someone die. Brigid Quinn is tough, determined, steely and sharper than sharp. As an ex-agent of the FBI, she has seen it all - and survived. But nothing can cut her closer to the bone than family.... When Brigid gets a call from her mother saying her father is in hospital with pneumonia, she decides to check on her former colleague Laura Coleman, who is living nearby. Having saved Brigid's life, Laura is now working on an innocence project, investigating cold cases.

Ex-FBI Agent Brigid Quinn thinks she has a second chance at life. After too many years spent in the company of evil, she's quit the Feds and is working out what normal is meant to feel like. She's swapped serial killers, stakeouts and interrogation for a husband, friends and free time. But when you've walked in darkness for so long, can you stand the light? When a local teenager dies in a tragic drowning accident, the community thinks Brigid might be able to help comfort the family.

Som ung FBI-agent var Brigid Quinn den perfekte lokkemad for seriemordere – slank og blond, tilsyneladende et let bytte. Men da hun bliver ældre, må hun finde en afløser, en protege, som kan tage hendes plads. Hun træner en nyuddannet agent op og bruger hende som madding. Og alt går efter planen… lige indtil Route 66-morderen finder maddingen, tager den – og myrder den unge agent. Mange år senere kæmper Quinn stadig med det faktum, at hun har en ung kvindes liv på samvittigheden.

Eks-FBI-agenten Brigid Quinn har set rigeligt med psykopater. Hun er klar til at lægge det hele bag sig og opbygge et nyt liv i Tucson med sin mand, venner og et godt, stille arbejde som privatdetektiv. Men nogle gange er tingene ikke så simple. Da hendes svigerinde dør, beslutter Brigid sig for at tage sin syttenårige niece Gemma-Kate under sine vinger. Der har altid været noget foruroligende ved Gemma-Kate, men familie er familie. Det går fint, indtil Gemma-Kate begynder at få en usund interesse for at dissekere det lokale dyreliv.