This is way more than just another of the myriad of DC murders. Wilcox was part of the Secret Service having risen to serve on the protective detail of FLOTUS. Some think her rise in the Service was a little too swift. The reflecting pool is technically the jurisdiction of the US Park Service. And, obviously, it happened in DC. That means the Secret Service, the Park Service, DC Metro, and the FBI are all at each others throat arguing jurisdiction. Seeing as how DC Metro isn't federal, they have the least to say. About the only disinterested agency is the CIA.
But Zorn is an uncompromising detective who only wants to find out the truth, jurisdiction be damned. Another thing about Zorn . . . he doesn't give a shit who he pisses off. He could care less about government officials telling him to back off. National security? Yeah, right. POTUS, FLOTUS, Chief of Staff, Secret Service, dozens of other White House staffers can't seem to get through his thick skull, Justice for Sandra Wilcox matters. Truth matters. That's it.
So what if Zorn's pursuit of the truth might put his partner in someone's crosshairs. Heck, most of the detective service is quite unhappy with him.
The investigation ends up unwrapping some curious details of Sandra's life and death not to mention her rapid ascent in the Secret Service. And because no DC detective only works one case at a time, Zorn manages to douse a developing gang war over a delivery of weapons and a threat of a possible presidential assassination. It's been a busy few weeks for Zorn.
Eskin spent a career in various aspects of government. His literary history is as a playwright so this is his first novel. Let's hope Zorn has a long and contentious career working DC crime. This is good stuff. Really good.
West Coast Don reviewed this a couple months ago. He liked it, too.
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