Truthfully, I kind of enjoyed this for all that it was a two star. It's a dense police procedural where every character is a terrible person and you're just following along and it devolves into chaos, which I quite enjoy. The main issue was that the characters weren't necessarily all intended to be that terrible. The main character's love interest (this is romantic suspense) beats a guy unconscious, breaks into multiple people's homes, gives a guy a swirly, and holds a gun on the MC for no reason. Dude's a cop. I can never get behind that as a love interest. I really enjoy terrible characters in cop thrillers, but I'm not going to be on their side.

The other main issues were the fact that this was unnecessarily long, the actual mystery itself was pretty uninspired, and there was a fair bit of random racism for a minute that had no purpose and meant nothing.

I did like the writing style, and I like this type of book a lot. While I had an issue with a lot of specific elements, I feel like Tami Hoag is capable of writing a really good cop thriller. This just wasn't it.