Love Notes

In this third Mimi and Gianna outing, the pair once again find themselves searching for answers to the same questions--but this time from completely and, for them, surprising approaches. Like the cop she is, Lt. Gianna Maglione, head of the DC Police Department's Hate Crimes Unit, is looking to find who is luring 50-something women to the nation's capitol with the promise of love, only to murder them and steal their possessions. Mimi, on the other hand, wants to understand society's brutal treatment of "women of a certain age." Why would an otherwise intelligent, attractive, financially secure women move to a strange city to be with a woman met on-line with the promise of one last chance at love? Will her newspaper allow her to write about an occurrence as natural as breathing that may be leading women to their death? Every woman who lives long enough will traverse menopause. Why is it so feared and hated? And has it really made half a dozen women willing victims of a malicious hate crime?