Girl in a Dumpster

Holland Taylor returns in Girl in a Dumpster, the sixth book in David Housewright's Edgar Award-winning hardboiled detective series.

Party girl Henrietta Weller wakes up one morning in a dumpster behind a bar in Minneapolis' notorious north side with no memory of how she got there. She hires Taylor and his partner Sidney Poitier Fredericks to get answers. And revenge. "So there's no misunderstanding later—someone threw me away like so much garbage. Someone is going to pay for that."

Taylor soon discovers that the woman was kidnapped and ransomed back to her mother. What's more, she wasn't the only victim. A sophisticated kidnapping ring has targeted the daughters of Minnesota's rich and famous—and infamous. Taylor and Freddie insist that the FBI be informed. However, a financial guru and fixer for the families demands that the incidents be dealt with and forgotten. Until there's another kidnapping. And another. And Taylor and Freddie are forced to take matters into their own hands—no matter what the cost.