77th Street Requiem * Wendy Hornsby * Maggie MacGowen #4

The Chilling, High-Stakes Hunt for the Cold Case Executioner of 77th Street. A decayed, blood-soaked secrets from the explosive, racially charged street riots of 1970s Los Angeles roars back to life with a devastating, modern-day body count. For brilliant investigative filmmaker and independent true-crime documentarian Maggie MacGowen, a routine assignment exploring historical urban violence violently derails into an agonizing psychological trap. Maggie travels to the heart of the LAPD’s notorious 77th Street Division to research the unsolved, twenty-four-year-old homicide of a legendary, highly idealistic rookie cop who was executed under a cloud of suspicious circumstances.

The official department bureaus have long written the old tragedy off as a random casualty of a chaotic era, but as Maggie forces open long-buried case ledgers, she uncovers a treacherous landscape of systemic cover-ups, dark political alliances, and missing evidence. The stakes skyrocket when the elderly, tight-lipped veteran officers who originally patrolled that fateful beat begin dying in a series of suspicious, cold-blooded "accidents." Realizing she is being tracked by an invisible predator within the establishment, Maggie must rely on her sharp documentarian intuition and forensic analysis to expose a brilliant mastermind before her own project faces a permanent cancellation. Fusing gritty, realistic police procedural mechanics with sharp plot twists and deep atmospheric tension, this fourth entry in the acclaimed series chronicles a breathless, calculation-driven race to enforce absolute justice across enemy lines. 

First published in April 1995 by Dutton / Penguin Group USA