The Children's Cop

Women in Blue #2

by Sherry Lewis

Did Angel run away? Or was she taken?

Detective Lucy Montalvo's job in the juvenile division of Missing Persons at the Houston Police Department may not be the easiest job in the world - but what's more rewarding than reuniting a missing child with her family? Now she's searching for Angelina Beckett, a young girl with a troubled past.

Estranged from her friends and misunderstood by her family, Lucy feels all alone. That is, until she meets Jackson Davis, Angel's uncle. They make a great team - but what about when the case is finished? How can she admit to him the things she's never told anyone about her job? Will he still be able to trust her?

Genres: Romance, Harlequin

304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published November 1, 2004

About the author

Sherry Lewis is an award-winning, national bestselling author who writes across several genres. Along with her writing career, she has been teaching writing workshops for more than 20 years through Dancing on Coals Workshops for Fiction Writers.

In 1993 Sherry launched her mystery-writing career with the sale of her first three books in the Fred Vickery mystery series to Berkley Prime Crime. In early 1994 she sold her first romance to Harlequin Superromance, launching her career as a romance writer.

As Sammi Carter, she wrote the Candy Shop mystery series set in Paradise, Colorado and featuring Abby Shaw. As Jacklyn Brady she wrote the Piece of Cake mystery series set in New Orleans, featuring cake artist Rita Lucero.

Originally from Montana, Sherry spent several years living at the base of Utah's Wasatch Mountains. She now lives a block from the beach along Florida's Emerald Coast. It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it.

Reviews

[Kay · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 Stars! ~ When a missing child's case ends up in tragedy, Lucy feels guilt that maybe she missed something and could have saved the boy. Her boss recognizes her emotional upset and orders her to seek counciling and then assigns her to another missing child, this one a teen. Lucy's been raised to view counciling as a weakness, and finds herself alienated from her family when they find out, her parents insisting that all she needs is to talk to them and not air her troubles. Looking for the teen, Angel, gives Lucy something to focus on, esp. when Angel's uncle Jackson insists on being there every stop of the way in finding her.

Lucy's strained relationship with her friends, and her parents anger and disappointment in her inability to pull herself together, have left her feeling totally alone. Until Jackson gives her his complete trust in finding Angel.


Women in Blue Multi-Author Series

These are the stories of six women who find each other at the Houston Police Academy. Catherine takes five young women under her instruction and teaches them not only the skills they will need to be good cops, but skills they will need to survive in the very male police department. The women become fast friends and stick up for each other, until Catherine is promoted to Police Chief and when one of them is accused of wrong doing in her partner's death on the job.