Cop Without a Shield

Norah Mulcahaney #8

by Lillian O'Donnell

Frustrated by police impotence and bureaucratic red tape and devastated by personal tragedy, Sergeant Norah Mulcahaney flees the city for tiny York Crossing, Pennsylvania, and finds herself embroiled in a case involving illegal aliens, kidnapping, and murder

Genres: Mystery

256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published November 1, 1983

About the author

Married J. Leonard O'Donnell. Lived in New York, NY. Interred in Maple Grove Cemetery.
Began career in theater then turned to writing crime novels. Longest running character was NY City policewoman Norah Mulcahaney, but also had series for Mici Anhalt, a crime victims investigator, and private detective Gwenn Ramadge.

Reviews

[Fredrick Danysh · Rating 3 out of 5]

When her husband is killed in the line of duty, police sergeant Norah Mulcahany resigns from NYPD and flees to a small Pennsylvania town seeking peace. There she finds an illega; alien smuggling operation and murder.