About BLUNT IMPACT by Lisa Black
The main character in Blunt Impact has my old job: a forensic scientist in the Trace Evidence Department of the coroner’s office in Cleveland, Ohio. Theresa MacLean is quite comfortable with infrared spectroscopy, gunshot residue and dead bodies, but with this case she has to deal with something outside her comfort zone: a recent bereaved, 11 year old semi-street-urchin nicknamed Ghost. Ghost’s mother was a lively young construction worker thrown from the 23 rd floor of a controversial new jail as Ghost watched. Now Ghost will stop at nothing to find the truth and Theresa will stop at nothing to keep the child safe. This book caused a true rift between myself and my former editor and sounded my death knell as a HarperCollins author. I originally wrote Ghost’s life history as much more bleak, and her mother something in the “Precious” mode. As a comfy suburban dweller I found the little gir...