When the wife of an LAPD captain turns up dead on the pier in Santa Isabel, a relatively peaceful town along the coast in Central California, Police Lieutenant Shelby Ann Webb figures there’s a story there somewhere. She doesn’t realize the backstory will involve not only the captain, but also a big-time operator in illegal drug trafficking, a handful of characters you wouldn’t want to meet in a dark alley, and some people very close to Shelby herself. Shelby had her own troubles in L.A. before she was basically forced to leave the LAPD. Will her past hold her back in trying to solve this murder? Someone asked her what she would do if someone she cared about did something very wrong. Now she has to answer that question.
This one grips the reader from the very first line, moody and foreboding. Pool has woven an intricate plot of murder and deception, and no one in this book is quite who they seem. Or are they? All is revealed in good time, with a fast-paced and satisfying conclusion. Pool sprinkles her trademark one-liners throughout, like this one:” He knew where some of the ‘bodies’ were buried and had a shovel.” Highly entertaining read!