Maria (Aftermath)

Maria
Maria is a character from the short story Aftermath which is exclusive to the short story collection Side Jobs she is discribed as small and fragile looking.

Biography
While Murphy is canvassing the apartment buildings while looking for Georgia she comes to the apartment building and soon finds a witness named Maria who obviously lies to her about having not seen anything. Murphy then discovers that Maria is terrified of the block's janitor Ray. Murphy recognizes Ray as a petty bully and provokes him to attack her, pinning him to the ground Murphy threatens him with legal prosecution unless he resigns from his job, thus freeing the tenants of his oppression. As she is about to leave, Maria catches up with her and tells that a man very reminiscent of Hendricks visited Georgia's apartment soon after the kidnapping. later when talking to Marcone, Murphy discovers Maria is actually one of his "troubleshooters" who is tracking down the people who where dealing drugs behind Marcone's back in the parking lot of Ray's apartment buildings. The terrified, abused woman Murphy met was an act.