Dark Lady by Patterson Richard North

Richard North Patterson displays the mastery of setting, psychology, and story that makes him unique among writers of suspense, and one of today's most original and enthralling novelists.

In Steelton, a struggling Midwestern town, two prominent men are found dead within days of each other. Tommy Fielding, a senior officer of the company building a new baseball stadium, t The Assistant County Prosecutor Stella Marz. Despite a breach with her alcoholic father, she has risen from a working-class background to become head of the prosecutor's homicide unit. she is called the Dark Lady for her sometimes ruthless, style: . She has earned both her official and her off-the-record titles, and recently she's decided to go after another: to become the first woman elected Prosecutor of Erie County. But that was before the brutal murder of her ex-lover--Jack Novak. Novak's death leads her into a labyrinth where her personal and professional lives become entwined.