Woman With A Gun
Phillip Margolin
Harper, Dec 2 2014, $26.95
ISBN: 9780062266521
In 2015, MOMA hosts an exhibit of Pulitzer Prize winning Kathy
Moran’s photographs. Attending the
event, wannabe writer Stacey Kim, is mesmerized by an iconic photo “Woman With
A Gun”; that of a woman in a white wedding dress on a beach staring out at the
ocean while holding a nineteenth century six-shooter. Obsessed to know more about this astonishing
picture Stacey heads to the hometown of the photographer in Palisades Heights,
Oregon where Kathy also took that incredible picture.
In 2005, millionaire Raymond Cahill marries Megan. A few hours later he is dead and she suffered
a concussion. Afterward Megan insists
she remembers nothing after exchanging their vows. Five years prior to the Cahill homicide, ADA Jack Booth lost a sure-shot case to his unrequited
love lawyer Kathy Moran that that haunts him fifteen years later. With plans to write a novel based on the
incident Stacey arrives to investigate; Jack helps her even as more murders
occur.
The three prime subplots converge into an
interesting murder mystery though the 2015 homicides distract from the exciting
present day inquiry into the gripping decade old cold case and adds unnecessary
cast. Still readers will want to know
what happened in 2005.
Harriet Klausner
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