{"id":169,"date":"2006-08-01T12:03:25","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T17:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sistahsontheshelf.com\/blog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2020-05-09T13:40:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T17:40:31","slug":"keeping-secrets-a-gianna-maglione-mystery-by-penny-mickelbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Secrets: A Gianna Maglione Mystery by Penny Mickelbury"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Publisher\/Date:\u00a0<\/strong> Kings Crossing Publishing, 2003
\nGenre(s):\u00a0<\/strong> Mystery, Crime
\nPages:<\/strong>\u00a0 193
\nWebsite:\u00a0<\/strong> http:\/\/www.nghosibooks.com\/Inkwell\/pennymain.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

Rating:<\/strong> \"★\"\"★\"\"★\"\"★\"\"½\" <\/p><\/strong><\/p>\n

Girl, watch out!!!<\/p>\n

There’s a killer hunting the gay community in KEEPING SECRETS<\/em><\/strong>, the first in the Gianna Maglione\u00a0series from mystery writer Penny Mickelbury.<\/p>\n

But no worries, Gianna is on the case. A top-notch lieutenant in the Hate Crimes Unit with the Washington, D. C. police department, she’s trying to find out who’s been targeting prominent, in-the-closet inhabitants of the nation’s capital.\u00a0 Not only is it a matter of who’s been killed but how, as the victims are shot in the gruesome fashion. It’s racking Gianna’s brain and what’s worse is that could be only a matter of time before she or someone she knows could be on the hit list.<\/p>\n

On the other side of the case is Mimi Patterson, a black investigative reporter. Gianna won’t let Mimi get anywhere near the case, for fear that the journalist will turn the investigation into a media frenzy. All Mimi wants is some answers, and with good sources on a high-profile case like this, she won’t rest until she gets discovers who’s behind the crime. Even if it means dealing with hard-nosed Gianna.<\/p>\n

At odds, the two women are just trying to do their jobs\u2014and trying to fight their growing attraction to one another. Their blossoming romance can’t be good for the case. Especially when they know that one false move could jeopardize any luck they have in trying to find the serial killer.<\/p>\n

Mickelbury has created an excellent first novel in a series you will want to read more of. Keeping Secrets<\/em> kept me on the edge of my seat, and the romance between the two enhanced the story of a cop and a reporter trying to do good. I must admit I had a clue about the killer half-way through, but it was still gripping to see how they would get the sick bastard. And I enjoyed the behind-the-scenes work of the detectives, as well. I definitely plan to read more of the Gianna\/Mimi mysteries.<\/p>\n

Cause it also doesn’t hurt that the women are hot, too.<\/p>\n

Reviewed Aug-Sept 2006<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Publisher\/Date:\u00a0 Kings Crossing Publishing, 2003 Genre(s):\u00a0 Mystery, Crime Pages:\u00a0 193 Website:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.nghosibooks.com\/Inkwell\/pennymain.htm Girl, watch out!!! There’s a killer hunting the gay community in KEEPING SECRETS, the first in the Gianna Maglione\u00a0series from mystery writer Penny Mickelbury. But no worries, Gianna is on the case. A top-notch lieutenant in the Hate Crimes Unit with the Washington, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[42,147,333,363],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7451,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/7451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}