Jodi Compton

Having defied a powerful mobster to protect a pregnant teenager, army dropout Hailey Cain has found herself on the wrong side of the law and is now in LA, second-in-command to her high school best friend turned rising gangster Serena Warchild Delgadillo. Hailey is just beginning to settle into her unconventional new way of life when it is suddenly and violently overturned. A murder has been committed, and all fingers are pointing at her. Only Hailey herself, and the all-girl gang to which she belongs, know that this is a case of stolen identity with ruthless and dangerous motives. But how can they prove this, given that shell be arrested as soon as she steps forward? Hailey must go on the run once more, risking her life to reclaim her name and chase down the murderer who has taken it

Twenty-four-year-old Hailey Cain has dropped out of the US Military Academy for reasons she wont reveal. She has had to leave Los Angeles and it would be too big a risk for her to return. Now working as a bike messenger in San Francisco, Hailey keeps a low profile, until her high school best friend Serena Delgadillo makes a call that will turn her whole life upside-down. Serena is the head of an all-female gang on the rough streets of LA. She wants Hailey to escort the cousin of a recently murdered gang member across the border to Mexico. Its a mission that will nearly cost Hailey her life, causing her to choose more than once between loyalty and lawlessness, and forcing her to confront two very big secrets in her past...

Nadie en el departamento de policía de Mineápolis entiende por qué la detective Sarah Pribeck sigue manteniendo en el anonimato la identidad de un asesino; en especial, cuando se trata del violador de la hija de su ex compañera y su marido es quien esta pagando por ello. Jodi Compton retoma el personaje protagonista de 37 horas para ofrecernos un thriller impactante.

Sarah Pribek is a police officer in the Missing Persons department. She, of all people, knows that the first 36 hours in a missing persons case are the most crucial. When she learns that her husband Shiloh has failed to show up for FBI training in Quantico, Sarah commences a Missing Persons search for her own husband. But already it's the 37th hour. The search takes her to his family where she hears of a sister she never knew he had, to New Mexico, where (coincidentally?) she grew up, and finally back to her ex police partner, Genevieve, where all the threads of this brilliantly told novel come together.

La regla básica en la investigación de casos de desapararecidos es recopilar toda la información y los indicios posibles en las primeras 36 horas tras el suceso, cuando la memoria de los testigos no está contaminada y las pistas todavía pueden ser fiables. Sarah Pribek, una detective de la policía de Mineápolis especializada en este tipo de casos, conoce bien esta circunstancia. Cuando descubre quue su marido, Shiloh, lleva despararecido 48 horas y se pone a investigar, salen a la luz mu chas cosas que no sabía de él.

Un inteligente y desafiante thriller.” The New York Times Book Review Sarah Pribek, una detective de Mineápolis especializada en desapariciones, protege la identidad de una amiga suya, Genevieve. Amb

Las primeras 36 horas en la investigación de casos de desaparecidos son cruciales, porque, como bien sabe la detective Sarah Pribek, transcurrido ese tiempo es prácticamente imposible encontrar a la persona desaparecida con vida. Cuando Sarah descubre que Shiloh, su marido, es su nuevo caso y se pone a investigar, inicia un protocolo policial al que esta mas que acostumbrada: entrevistas con familiares y amigos de la victima, repaso a las ultimas llamadas telefonicas, recorridos por los lugares que frecuentaba. Un periplo en busca de pistas que le puedan aportar cualquier atisbo de luz, pero que en esta ocasion la descubriran un pasado del que apenas tenia noticia.

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