What sounded like a promising story sort of degenerated into 'how many bad things can happen to the main character in one single book' by about the third or fourth chapter.
Lisa Jackson definitely has the earmarks of a good writer, but the massive tragedy that was the life of this poor cop in her book ended up detracting from the character and the story far more than adding to it. The setup of his wife cheating on him, then him leaving her, getting back together and her cheating on him again, with his half-brother, would've been ok. I could've gone with that. I could've even gone with her dying in a car crash immediately after he told her to get lost. That was all setup for the plot.
But, then, the subsequent issues of people somehow blaming him (for reasons I still can't fathom) for it all, despite the car crash being ruled an accident and his wife obviously being the cause of the marriage failing twice, his accidental shooting of a twelve year old because the kid was holding a water pistol he thought was real and losing his job (of course) because of that, his move to another town, remarrying, getting a new job, then being smashed by a lightning struck tree in the middle of a thunderstorm and nearly paralyzed (the randomnesss, it burns), being steered toward forced retirement by his current captain despite a recovery that was nothing short of miraculous, and also somehow screwing up his second marriage in the process of all this despite the fact that his wife is awesome and supportive and adores him and he thinks she's just the greatest thing ever, is all a bit much. Especially when it all happens before the book gets past chapter 4 or so and I was still waiting for more to happen with the plot.
It's hard to recover from that sort of distraction and the author's constant insistence that no one really likes this guy, even when it makes no sense that they wouldn't, and it didn't help that the plot and clues given to what was going on were a bit predictable. Generally, it's an ok read, but it really dragged in parts and the characterization of the main character especially could've used some refining. Too much of his motivation and things that happened to him didn't make sense and seemed contrived simply to prove how wonderful he is at overcoming all adversity to get to the bottom of things, despite the world, his friends and family, and all of nature in general being against him. It got to be a bit much.
All in all, the book wasn't horrible, just not anything outstanding and could've been much better with some logic and judicious editing.