Hidden in Plain View
by Blair Walker

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Summary of Hidden in Plain View

As a harried reporter for the Baltimore Hearald, Daryll Billups exposed a neo-Natzi killer and halted a rash of lethal bombings that terrorized the city.  For his efforts, he was awarded a management position at the paper, a raise, and national fame.  But a devious serial slayer is pulling him back to the streets and directly into harm's way.

The victims are all young, black, and successful; all discovered nude in the bathrub, their faces defiled with Confederate flag stickers.  Everything else is a mystery: the murderer's identity, motives...even the cause of death.  And when the killing spreads beyond Baltimore's limits.  Darryl will need to rely on every investigative trick he knows to track down a maniac.  But Darryl's hunt is attracting unhealthy attention from the worst possible source--and dragging one tough city newsman ever-downward into a spiraling labrynth of tormented emotions, dark revenge, and terrible destruction.

Darryl's hopes for a quiet life are disturbed when someone begins killing people--all young, all African American, all upwardly mobile--and decorating their faces with decals of the Confederate flag. The tough old police detective who worked with him on the NAACP bombing case lets Darryl break the story to the country. Meanwhile, the killer--(who incidentally gets turned on by Jerry Springer)--gradually emerges from the shadows complete with a catalog of frightening surprises. The author knows his Baltimore, and he knows the inner-workings of a journalist's mind. He makes Darryl a most human and very interesting kind of hero. --Dick Adler

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• Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Mystery > Hard-Boiled
• Thrillers > Suspense