Seattle, Thomas & Mercer, 2024.
This is the fifth in a very enjoyable series about young Eve Ronin, a hard-nosed, driven, ambitious detective deputy with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. Less than a year ago, she grabbed herself a spot in robbery-homicide by leveraging the publicity she gained by taking down a drunken movie star assaulting his girlfriend in public, and thereby also gained the resentment of nearly everyone else at her station. She didn’t really didn’t know what she was doing at the beginning, but she has solved several more major crimes since then, plus uncovering a network of secret criminal gangs within the department (yes, those really have been a scandal in LA), which involved her shooting one deputy, watching while another committed suicide in front of her, and being literally bombed out of her house.