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Editor: Kevin Flynn
Profession: Author - Relentless Pursuit

Category: About the Book

On a cool night in late spring 1993, Diane Hawkins and her 13-year-old daughter Katrina were brutally murdered in their own home by Diane's ex-boyfriend, Norman Harrell. The reason: Diane had taken Harrell to assert her legal right to child support, and he visited the ultimate vengeance upon her and her daughter. RELENTLESS PURSUIT tells the heroic story of these two innocent victims, and how the author, federal prosecutor Kevin Flynn, partnered with law-enforcement forces to bring their killer to justice and deliver closure to a family and community devastated by this horrible crime.

In telling Diane Hawkins' story,

Flynn sheds light on an issue that occurs in too many American households: domestic violence. In the U.S., more than three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends in this country every day; nearly 5.3 million incidents of intimate-partner violence occur every year among women ages 18 and older; 1,300 women die each year because of such violence; and one out of every four women will experience violence by an intimate partner sometime during her lifetime.

In two decades as a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C., Kevin Flynn has played a key role in the types of cases that make headlines and have come to dominate television's crime dramas. It was the case of Diane Hawkins and Katrina Harris, though, that he could never forget. In RELENTLESS PURSUIT, Flynn details his quest to deliver justice and closure to a family and community devastated by the horrific crime.

Far more than a simple recounting of the case, this is the inspirational story of one man's unwavering dedication to uncovering the truth - a struggle that continued for more than ten years. The book explores the profound effect of the crime on the victim's family members as they struggled to reconcile their faith with the devastating loss they experienced. Most importantly, it illustrates how justice truly can be blind to the barriers of race, gender and social boundaries when people of extraordinary will and determination are seeking it. Filled with an insider's keen insight and first-class writing, RELENTLESS PURSUIT is certain to captivate all those who read it.