The Lost Witness (Lena Gamble #2)

New York: Minotaur Books, 2009. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. FIRST PRINTING. 6.4"x9.5" 339 pages. Black cloth boards w/red foil letters on spine. Author photo Jeremy Sykes. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. X-library w/graphics, DJ pasted to inside boards, unclipped ($25.95). Mild edge and shelf wear. Secure ship w/track #. With his novel City of Fire, Robert Ellis debuted a dynamic new character in Los Angeles detective Lena Gamble, but also captured a vivid picture of the city of Los Angeles. Readers and critics made City of Fire an instant phenomenon, as the book became a Los Angeles Times bestseller and was named a top summer read by People magazine, USA Today, and The New York Times. Now Lena Gamble is a cop held in disgrace by department higher-ups for the explosive way the Romeo case played out, though she's still hailed as a hero by her colleagues for catching the killer. For her punishment, she hasn't handled a real murder investigation in eight months. When the chief finally tosses her a case, she's thrilled until she gets a look at the scene and realizes he's probably setting her up to be exiled once and for all: The victim is unidentified, and there are no witnesses, and no leads. Just the body, chopped into pieces and dropped in a Dumpster—gruesome enough to ensure that once again the media will be following Lena's every move. Robert Ellis delivers another high-speed, commercial, powerful read, featuring one of the most engaging and vibrant police characters on the shelf today.