Agents: Deborah Schneider and Sheila Crowley, Gelfman Schneider Literary Agents. Ransom river By: Gardiner, Meg Material type: Text Publication details: New York : Dutton, c2012. Like all of Gardiner’s heroines, Rory is tough when it counts but never implausibly so. Ransom River By Meg Gardiner Cover Image. Sparks still fly between the pair as they try to piece together the motive behind the courtroom siege. Meg Gardiner was born in Oklahoma and raised in Santa Barbara, California. When ex-undercover cop Seth Colder, her childhood love, warns her of dirty cops in the Ransom River PD, it’s clear the problem is bigger than Rory. A stunningly complex and atmospheric crime novel from Edgar Awardwinning author Meg Gardiner, Ransom River features a deeply flawed, compelling heroine, a murder trial, and the long-unsolved mystery it exposes. Even though a SWAT team comes to the rescue with minimal bloodshed, the police single out Rory as a potential accomplice because of undue attention one gunman paid to her. A stunningly complex and atmospheric novel from Edgar Award-winning author Meg Gardiner, featuring a deeply flawed, compelling heroine, a murder trial. As a juror, Rory gets thrust into a hostage situation when two armed gunmen storm the courtroom where the trial of two cops accused of shooting a burglar is taking place. Read more 2012 Meg Gardiner (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc. But she comes back and does her civic duty. Ransom River is an intimate crime thriller with a dark mystery at its heart - one that will keep listeners breathless. The AP says: 'Heat 2 is just dynamite.' It debuted at 1 on the NYT best seller list.

Her latest is Heat 2, co-written with Michael Mann. Near the start of this solid stand-alone thriller from Edgar-winner Gardiner (The Nightmare Thief), Aurora “Rory” Mackenzie, an attorney who was working for Asylum Action, which monitored “refugees seeking political asylum” until it lost its funding, returns home to Ransom River, Calif., in answer to a jury summons. From award-winning author Meg Gardiner, co-author of Michael Mann’s Heat 2JUDGE, JURYAND EXECUTION.Rory Mackenzie vowed to never return to her hometown of Ransom River, California. Meg Gardiner is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of sixteen thrillers.

Ransom River by Meg Gardiner