Three Shirt Deal (Shane Scully Series #7) » (Bargain)

In his thirty-five-year-career, Emmy Award-winning writer STEPHEN J. CANNELL has created more than forty television series. Among his hits are The Rockford Files, Silk Stalkings, The A-Team, 21 Jump Street, Hunter, Renegade, Wiseguy, and The Commish. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and children.

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IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES

Truit Hickman is a small-time crook doing life in a California prison for the murder of his mother. But now Hickman is claiming that his confession was coerced. Enter Secada “Scout” Llevar, the gorgeous Internal Affairs detective who partners up with LAPD detective Shane Scully to investigate the claim.

MURDER IS NEVER A DEAD-END STREET…

What began as a routine review is turning into something far more complicated—and deadly. Because some things, once started, cannot be stopped… Now the Hickman case is spiraling out of control as gang violence, rivaling cops, political heavyweights, and Shane’s dangerous attraction to Scout threaten to put an abrupt end to the investigation. And their lives.

“CANNELL IS A FIRST-RATE STORYTELLER.”—Janet Evanovich

“A very satisfying thriller written by a born entertainer.”—New York Post on White Sister

Publishers Weekly

Cannell, creator of TV's Rockford Filesand A-Team, fails to translate his considerable narrative gifts into print in this seventh Shane Scully police thriller (after 2006's White Sister). LAPD detective Scully has been struggling in his personal life ever since his wife, Alexa, the department's chief of the detective's bureau, was shot in the head and developed erratic mood swings. Secada Llevar, a sexy investigating officer for internal affairs, corners Scully and demands his help in reopening a homicide; she believes Tru Hickman, convicted of killing his mother to support a meth habit, was railroaded by some corrupt cops, but she has been ordered by her superiors to drop her inquiry. Scully joins her probe and predictably uncovers high-level corruption, possibly connected with an impending mayoral election, while struggling with his attraction to Secada. The perils-of-Pauline ending is better suited for the small screen, and the numerous implausibilities may be too much for some readers. (Jan.)