Pacific Homicide

“Readers will discover Smiley’s nimble talents for understated wit, unsentimental affection, and the emotional wounds that drive the best of cops to buck the system in search of justice.”—Kim Fay, Edgar Award finalist for The Map of Lost Memories Most cops spend their entire careers without firing a weapon in the line of duty. LAPD Homicide Detective Davie Richards is an outlier, a cop who killed a suspect to save another officer’s life. While she waits for the police commission to rule on the shooting, she’s called out to probe the gruesome homicide of Anya Nosova, a nineteen-year-old Russian beauty whose body is found in the Los Angeles sewer system. With her own case in limbo, Davie knows that any mistakes in the investigation could end her career. As she hunts for the murderer, somebody begins to hunt her . . . and it’s no longer just her job that’s on the line. Praise:“Smiley knows the LAPD from the inside out and writes with the...