procedural, England, law-enforcement, family, family-dynamics, family-drama, suspense, murder, multiple-murder, murder-investigation, assassins, secrets, lies, frenemy, friends, friendship, frustration*****

This is book eight in a long running series but can easily be read as a stand alone (or out of order).
It's the mystery/procedural that's the grabber. The interpersonals between the squad are very interesting and realistic, but they are just the icing on the cake.
The first murder requires more due diligence than most and the process is hindered by an unknown sniper who is targeting law enforcement in a number of districts causing fear in each officer. Great details and the suspense keeps mounting through all the diabolical twists and sneaky red herrings!
Gemma Dawson is the voice actor who really brings even more credibility to the story. ( )

Who could possible want Mattie Jones dead. She wasn't liked and was going through a divorce. But kill her?
Hillary Greene and her team investigate, while a sniper is killing random policemen.
Another enjoyable well-written, good mystery and characters from this series. ( )

Mattie, who is in the process of divorcing her husband, is stabbed to death in her hallway. This was fairly good, although the identity of the murderer was a little out of left field. There also seems to be a little revisionist history going on - in earlier books, the infamous Dick Francis novel was inscribed from Hillary to Ronnie, but now the opposite is the case, and the accounts of what Hillary told her neighbour about Gemma searching her boat the first time around are also inconsistent. ( )