Stealing Love

About this book

By day, Mary A. Fischer is a respected, award-winning journalist who covers the criminal justice system. At night, sometimes, she is also a dognapper in the name of love. It's a risk every time, but for Fischer the danger of standing idly by while innocents suffer is greater still. Her own painful experiences of loss and neglect have led her down both paths: covering the law and breaking it. Growing up, love was something she had to work for, something she had to steal in bits and pieces. She developed an acute sensitivity to injustice that has led her to visit people in prison who have been wrongly accused. Her best known stories included the McMartin Preschool child sexual abuse case and the 1993 Michael Jackson scandal. Her motive in both journalism and dognapping is the same: to stand up for the underdog and defend those who can't defend themselves.--From publisher description.