Julia Brennan This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. HOME

   www.deadlypleasures.com/ROTW46 - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/31/2001   Last Visited: 9/6/2004

   Julia Brennan is a NYPD lieutenant of Manhattan North's Homicide Division. She also is the single mother of a young teenage daughter, and her aged Uncle Robert is a long-honored columnist for the New York Daily News. The story opens with Julia arriving at a crime scene in Central Park, where a young girl's naked body is found, blue from the winter night's cold. The girl's feet are scraped and dirty, suggesting that she might have run to the place where she came to her final rest. But where could she have come from? What was she running from? And wouldn't someone have reported seeing a naked girl heading into the park? Clues are scant, until reviews of tapes from security cameras in buildings along likely paths toward the park reveal the girl's brief presence. Then a couple of witnesses--men who had seen the girl run by--are identified. And still there is little progress on the case, which is consuming Julia Brennan as she feels an ever increasing personal need to identify "little girl blue" and bring to justice those responsible for her death.
   
   Eventually, what is revealed takes Lt. Brennan into the worlds of foreign adoption, child slavery, and pedophilia, and she cannot negotiate these uncharted territories without an informal partnership with an undercover cop from the Sex Crimes Unit who himself is so far onto the margins of normalcy that he is thought to be a suspect in the case. Before anything near a solution is reached, Brennan and everyone close to her will be in grave danger, as the magnitude of the network she is trying to bring down is beyond her wildest imaginings.

2. 2. Mystery Ink: Cray, David - Little Girl Blue (2001)

   www.mysteryinkonline.com/2004/ - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/1/2004   Last Visited: 1/19/2008

   Any cop would be troubled by Little Girl Blue, but Lieutenant Julia Brennan is moved as a mother, as well as an enforcer of the law. She has a young daughter of her own and cannot escape from the haunting image that pierces her mind.
   
   Brennan is an officer on the rise. The commander of Manhattan North Homicide's C Squad, she is in a position to do something about Little Girl Blue. She instructs the detectives under her supervision to pound the pavement searching for answers. Brennan also strikes up an uneasy alliance with Peter Foley, an officer working undercover with the Sex Crimes Unit.
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   Lieutenant Brennan uncovers a child pornography and prostitution ring that lies hidden in the upper reaches of Manhattan society, sheltered for years by the wealth of those who participate in it. As soon as Brennan gets the scent of these perverted criminals, though, their days are at an end.
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   Little Girl Blue is written with such insight into the character of Julia Brennan, especially her feelings as a mother. If indeed David is a man, his success is all the more notable.

3. 3. David Cray – Little Girl Blue

   www.ichiweb.com/littlegirlblue - [Cached]

   Published on: 8/17/2003   Last Visited: 3/29/2004

   Any cop would be troubled by Little Girl Blue, but Lieutenant Julia Brennan is moved as a mother, as well as an enforcer of the law. She has a young daughter of her own and cannot escape from the haunting image that pierces her mind.
   
   Brennan is an officer on the rise. The commander of Manhattan North Homicide's C Squad, she is in a position to do something about Little Girl Blue. She instructs the detectives under her supervision to pound the pavement searching for answers. Brennan also strikes up an uneasy alliance with Peter Foley, an officer working undercover with the Sex Crimes Unit.
   ...
   As soon as Brennan gets the scent of these perverted criminals, though, their days are at an end.
   ...
   Little Girl Blue is written with such insight into the character of Julia Brennan, especially her feelings as a mother. If indeed David is a man, his success is all the more notable.