Barbara Fister an academic librarian at a liberal arts college. Hailed as “the heir apparent to Sara Paretsky” by writer Kris Nelscott, Fister explores controversial social issues in her intense suspense novels. In On Edge, a community embraces oversimplified explanations for evil; in In the Wind, anxiety becomes a device for the suppression of dissent.

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THROUGH THE CRACKS
Minotaur/St. Martin’s Press, May 2010
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
Agent: Dan Mandel

“Thoughtful attention to the complexities of police work and social justice lift this gritty mystery well above the norm.”—Publishers Weekly

Twenty years after the Lincoln Park Rapist terrorized Chicago, private investigator Anni Koskinen is hired to find the real criminal. At the time, the police swiftly arrested a man for the crime, but the rape victim now believes that she had wrongfully imprisoned an innocent man. Anni discovers a trail of young women whose similar rapes and brutal beatings have slipped through the cracks. But as Anni tunnels after what was thought to be dead ends, she digs closer towards a deadly truth.

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