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Warning Shots
Life becomes more complicated than usual for LAPD Captain Josie Corsino after she chairs a disciplinary board that recommends firing a five-year police officer with a poor performance record and a history of irrational behavior. During his board of rights, the officer swears vengeance against her and anyone he believes is responsible for ruining his life and career.
When one of the board members, a prominent gay civil rights attorney, is shot to death outside a Hollywood gay bar, another board member ambushed and Josie's home firebombed, the obvious suspect is the unstable officer, and he soon becomes the target of an intense manhunt causing havoc and fear among those who knew him.
At the same time, Josie and her homicide supervisor Red Behan are trying to find a serial killer in Hollywood who is targeting young gay men. One of his victims is a police commissioner's brother, so there's department pressure to solve that case and political pressure to unravel the mystery of the slain attorney.
Behan is Josie's best detective, but he's retiring in less than a week which increases the pressure on her to quickly and successfully conclude both investigations.. Adding to her stress is the realization that she is once again in love but knows her job is toxic for married life.
It's only after her team finally captures their serial killer that everything falls into place and she knows the truth.
When one of the board members, a prominent gay civil rights attorney, is shot to death outside a Hollywood gay bar, another board member ambushed and Josie's home firebombed, the obvious suspect is the unstable officer, and he soon becomes the target of an intense manhunt causing havoc and fear among those who knew him.
At the same time, Josie and her homicide supervisor Red Behan are trying to find a serial killer in Hollywood who is targeting young gay men. One of his victims is a police commissioner's brother, so there's department pressure to solve that case and political pressure to unravel the mystery of the slain attorney.
Behan is Josie's best detective, but he's retiring in less than a week which increases the pressure on her to quickly and successfully conclude both investigations.. Adding to her stress is the realization that she is once again in love but knows her job is toxic for married life.
It's only after her team finally captures their serial killer that everything falls into place and she knows the truth.
272 pages, Hardcover
Published March 31, 2018
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About the author
Connie Dial
11 books23 followersConnie Dial is 27-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department. Prior to joining the force in 1969, she worked as a journalist and a reporter/photographer for a chain of newspapers in the San Gabriel Valley.
She currently resides in Southern California with her husband, retired Police Detective Jon Dial and their two Yorkshire Terriers named Bogart and Bacall.
She currently resides in Southern California with her husband, retired Police Detective Jon Dial and their two Yorkshire Terriers named Bogart and Bacall.
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February 23, 2018
Sometimes it’s the tiniest detail, the little word yes or no, the almost-nothing that totally changes the world. LAPD Captain Josie Corsino’s world is set to change in Connie Dial’s latest entry to this series, a change that surprises in its suddenness, but makes perfect sense and leads to logical conclusions. Meanwhile the world of a cop who’s been dismissed for failing in his job will surely change. The civilian member of the board that dismissed him is murdered—the biggest change of all. And the scene is set to chase a serial killer, a potential cop killer, or both. Opinions of characters—who can be trusted, who’s out for themselves, who will help and who’s in the way—all are set to be transformed as well in this fast-moving, fast-changing novel.
More than a police procedural, Warning Shots focusses on Josie’s viewpoint, her strength of character, and her faith in those she cares for as they help her study the clues. It’s a faith well-placed in some cases, maybe less so in others. It’s a faith that the tiniest detail, when discovered, will shatter or strengthen. In Warning Shots, the reader can follow those warning signs to their natural ends.
There are no simply good and bad characters in Connie Dial’s writing; her creations have the depth and flaws of real people; they grow through events that shape them, just as the Josie Corsino novels grow into a picture of time and place and people. Real problems fill these pages and haunt the reader, burning the barrier between imagination and hope. Josie Corsino will surely win through, but there’s mystery, betrayal and politics on the way—problems that may well find resolution in the warning shots of detail.
Disclosure: I was given a preview edition and I loved it. There again, I love the series.
More than a police procedural, Warning Shots focusses on Josie’s viewpoint, her strength of character, and her faith in those she cares for as they help her study the clues. It’s a faith well-placed in some cases, maybe less so in others. It’s a faith that the tiniest detail, when discovered, will shatter or strengthen. In Warning Shots, the reader can follow those warning signs to their natural ends.
There are no simply good and bad characters in Connie Dial’s writing; her creations have the depth and flaws of real people; they grow through events that shape them, just as the Josie Corsino novels grow into a picture of time and place and people. Real problems fill these pages and haunt the reader, burning the barrier between imagination and hope. Josie Corsino will surely win through, but there’s mystery, betrayal and politics on the way—problems that may well find resolution in the warning shots of detail.
Disclosure: I was given a preview edition and I loved it. There again, I love the series.
June 6, 2018
A serial killer is targeting gay men in Hollywood. When a prominent attorney and the police commissioners brother are killed the heat is on Captain Josie Corsino to find the killer.
The internal police politics put Josie in a bureaucratic minefield.
One bad step and her career could explode into a million pieces.
A good, quick, straight forward police procedure book.
A strong female lead written by a retired female police officer.
The internal police politics put Josie in a bureaucratic minefield.
One bad step and her career could explode into a million pieces.
A good, quick, straight forward police procedure book.
A strong female lead written by a retired female police officer.
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