The Acquittal
Ex-Chicago cop and new PI Josie Harper has been hired by an outside group to clear the name of publisher Lauren Wade, recently acquitted of the murder of her lover. That means finding the real killer, a task made more difficult by Lauren’s unwillingness to cooperate and a large family problem—Lauren’s parents have been kidnapped for a ransom she can no longer pay. Josie has a big challenge of her own: how to redeem herself after losing her job as a detective. When Josie and Lauren join forces to rescue the parents, they discover they make a great team, in more ways than one.
Will Josie’s troubled past come back to haunt her? And who did kill Lauren’s lover?
Anne Laughlin
Anne Laughlin was born and raised in Chicago, a city that often serves as the setting for her novels. She has written seven books for Bold Strokes Books, all stand-alone crime novels of the classic mystery, police procedural, and psychological thrill variety. She is the winner of four Goldie Awards from the Golden Crown Literary Society and has been shortlisted three times for a Lammy Award from the Lambda Literary Foundation. In 2022 she was awarded the Alice B Medal for excellence in lesbian fiction. She has written a number of published short stories. Her story “It Only Occurred to Me Later” was a finalist in the Saints and Sinners Short Fiction Contest. "Swan Club" appeared in the award-nominated anthology of queer crime fiction, Crime Ink: Iconic.
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