T. Jefferson Parker

She had first told her disturbing story over the phone to a girlfriend recently moved to Los Angeles, who happened to have just read a piece in the L.A. Times Magazine about a cool G-man. The G-man was the Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in Los Angeles, and Mary Kate took a very long Trailways journey to come...

After 10 California noir cop thrillers, Parker may have finally settled on a series character to anchor at least a portion of his work: Merci Rayborn, a single mom consumed by her job as a homicide detective with the Orange County Sheriff's Department. The Blue Hour and Edgar-nominated Red Light both chronicled the professional fall from grace that...