title: Common Murder: The Second Lindsay Gordon Mystery
author:  Val McDermid 
description: Although a self-assured lesbian, London journalist Lindsay Gordon vacillates between supposed happiness with partner Cordelia and intermittent bliss with former lover Deborah. At the Fordham air base, while covering a violent clash between inhabitants of the women's peace camp and members of a local opposition group, Lindsay finds that police have charged Deborah with assault. When someone murders the alleged "victim," Deborah becomes the prime suspect. Consequently, the women ask Lindsay to investigate. McDermid (Crack Down, LJ 11/1/94) creates believable characters, full-bodied prose, and the usual lovelife complications. A good read.<br />Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Freelance journalist Lindsay Gordon is strapped for cash. Why else would she
  agree to cover a fund-raising gala at a girls’ public school? But when the
  star attraction is found garrotted with her own cello string instants before
  she is due on stage, Lindsay finds herself investigating a vicious murder. Who
  would have wanted Lorna Smith Cooper dead? Who had the key to the locked room
  in which her body was found? And who could have slipped out of the hall at
  just the right time to commit this calculated and cold-blooded crime?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Val McDermid
  
  
  
  
  
  # Report for Murder
  
  
  
  
  
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  Titivillus 23.10.15
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Título original: _Report for Murder_
  
  
  
  
  
  Val McDermid, 1987
  
  
  
  
  
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  # PART ONE: OVERTURE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## 1
  
  
  
  
  
  Lindsay Gordon put murder to the back o