Böcker av Trish Macenulty

Trish spends her time hustling and cheating to score. Heroin, Dilaudids, whatever she can get.Precisely plotting the slippery slope of a heroin addict's existence, The Hummingbird Kiss paints a bleak picture but still manages to offer a ray of hope. The '70s are young, and 18-year-old Trish is a newlywed. When a Florida judge sentences her junkie husband to ten years for stealing stereos, she immediately seeks out a fix, and before she knows it she's hooked. There follows a long sojourn as she and her friends work small scams to score, head to California in search of better highs, move back to Florida, shoot up and nod off every chance they get - until death gets some of them.MacEnulty has constructed a gritty and sorrowful book about a young girl with an appetite for the damage done. Trish comes from a broken but still functional family. She's witty, articulate and street-smart enough to know better than to get caught up in this life of self destruction, but childhood abandonment and the ensuing self-loathing are too much for her to manage without medication. Her life unravels as her cross-country wanderings take her from drug dens to rehabs to prison, with a few bleary-eyed months spent scoring drugs in the Tijuana barrios.The author spares us no detail of her sordid descent, but Trish remains an engaging voice whose innate grain of goodness and interest in humanity keeps the reader on her side. Trish declines to blame anyone for her calamitous state. All she wants is the "hummingbird kiss of the needle" - the most wonderful experience she knows - until she inevitably winds up in prison and rediscovers the girl she once was."Searingly honest, often funny, always sordid story of a junkie's life in the 1970s."-Chauncey Mabe, Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

An elderly blind woman enlists Louisa Delafield and Ellen Malloy's help when her companion is snatched from a Manhattan Street. They soon learn that this young woman is just one of several. While Louisa investigates a New York playboy's possible involvement, Ellen resumes her role as a servant and goes undercover to learn what she can. What the two women discover leads to international intrigue with far-reaching consequences.

After the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915, New York society writer Louisa Delafield and her assistant Ellen Malloy join in the hunt for German saboteurs who are employing biological and chemical warfare on American soil. The spies have infiltrated all levels of American society, and they'll do anything from churning out propaganda to cold-blooded murder to keep America from helping the allies. Can two powerless women stop them?In Secrets and Spies, Louisa and Ellen confront their own conflicting loyalties as they are thrust into a world of subterfuge and deception.

When a wedding guest winds up dead with a stolen diamond in his hand, Louisa investigates, but finds the answers hard to come by when a mesmerizing French man distracts her from her duties.

Louisa Delafield and Ellen Malloy didn't ask to be thrown together to bring the truth to light. But after Ellen witnesses the death of a fellow servant during an illegal abortion, Louisa, a society columnist, vows to help her find the truth and turn her journalistic talent to a greater purpose.