A follow-up to the sensational -Keeping Secrets, - the book that launched the Mimi/Gianna series, -Night Songs- was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. From one alley to the next in the seamy underside of our nation's capital, the city's top investigative newspaper reporter, Mimi Patterson, chases the disappearance of two prostitutes who were leading her to a potentially huge story. Police Lieutenant Gianna Maglione is fighting mad. The murders of six women have gone cold because Homicide and Vice detectives didn't recognize the truth that Gianna did: The murders were Hate Crimes and belonged...

This first book in the ground-breaking Mimi/Gianna mystery series introduces the protagonists and from the beginning, their natural antagonism takes center stage: Lieutenant Gianna Maglione heads the Hate Crimes Unit of the Washington, DC police department while Mimi Patterson is the city's best known, it not most well-liked, investigative news paper reporter. She sees it as her job to find the truth and tell it--because the public has a right to know. For Gianna, too much information in the public domain can drive a criminal underground, allowing him--or her--to escape justice. Reporters and...

It sometimes seems to Police Lieutenant Gianna Maglione that people invent new ways to visit hate upon each other, and she should know: As head of the Washington, D.C. police department's Hate Crimes Unit, she gets a close-up look at the ugliness on a regular basis, and it's taking a toll. Montgomery -Mimi- Patterson sees her share of ugly, too. As the city's top investigative newspaper reporter, her forte is uncovering government graft and corruption at high and low levels, and those she brings down hate her for it. -I didn't tell 'em to steal the public's money, - she says with a shrug. But...