Done Wrong

Marti MacAlister #4

by Eleanor Taylor Bland

Cops were dying. A killer was going free. A woman with a broken heart was out to make a difference.

A mother, a widow, a black woman cop, Marti MacAlister lives and works in a quiet suburb. Part of her died in Chicago when her husband, an undercover cop, was killed by a bullet from his own gun. Now Marti is headed back to the city to find the truth about Johnny MacAlister's death.

Another Chicago undercover cop has died in a drug buy gone wrong, and Johnny's name keeps coming up. Guided by informants, scattered clues, and the hard wisdom of the streets, Marti scours the city's underbelly for the truth she must the kind of truth that can give a grieving woman back her life, or take it away all over again.

Genres: Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Mystery Thriller

224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Eleanor Taylor Bland was an African American writer of crime fiction. She was the creator of Lincoln Prairie, Illinois (based on Waukegan, Illinois) police detective Marti McAllister.

Reviews

[Ryan Mishap · Rating 4 out of 5]

While leaning more towards "crime" than mystery, this was easily the best I'd read in the series so far as we finally get to the case we've been waiting for her to investigate....

[Shelley · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was WONDERFUL. The writing is just beautifully spare. Just a wonderful ride. Loved Loved Loved it! And I finally found out what happened to Johnny and Cantor and why...I was really thrown for a loop! In the best possible way...

[Marilynn Smith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Didn’t like this one nearly as much as the first three. Very confusing, maybe too many characters. I’ll move in to the next one in the series.

[Monica Willyard Moen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well-written mystery from the police procedural subgenre featuring detectives in the undercover narcotics unit. Someone is systematically eliminating cops, and they're not very subtle about it either. The heroine, an experienced African-American policewoman is the only person who seems willing to dig deep to find the connection between these killings and the death of her beloved husband, a narcotics officer himself.

[Beth · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good plotting--it drew me right in. The main character is admirable and yet not perfect.

[Rae Lewis-Thornton · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of her top in the first 5 of the series