The Redhead in the Cove

A teenage boy kayaking outside the San Francisco Giants baseball stadium hopes an out-of-the-park home run will gain him a floating souvenir. Instead, he discovers something macabre—the body of MaryLou Kowalski, a once beautiful young nurse, washed up on the rocks in the cove adjacent to the stadium.

When the autopsy shows she didn’t drown, evidence leads to a string of suspects from a small town in northern Louisiana to San Francisco. One of them is Johnny Lynch, a veteran SFPD Police Inspe...