A website offering underage girls. A missing informant. When a body turns up, Sgt. Cory Marin, head of homicide and five months pregnant, is thrust into an investigation of the shady world of strip clubs and sex for sale.
Cory Marin turns up multiple suspects: the girl’s ‘manager’ and two prominent men she was blackmailing. As the case heats up, the discovery of a leak casts suspicion on the law enforcement agencies involved. As she investigates, Cory must juggle pressure from the DA not to ‘ruffle feathers’ with pressure from the FBI to keep her investigation quiet while the FBI concludes a larger investigation aimed at taking down the kingpin of the network. When a second woman turns up dead, similarities in the cases point to the possibility of a serial killer, ramping up the pressure on Cory to solve the case.
When her partner, Marty Washington, is threatened with a sexual harassment complaint if he doesn’t back off, and an anonymous tip reports cocaine in Cory’s car, it’s clear someone wants them off the job. The more resistance she encounters, the more she is determined to find the killer, but when Fletcher Manning, the father of her child, reappears in her life, even her personal life threatens to spiral out of control.
Cory’s investigation uncovers the dark underbelly of a culture in which all the male players consider themselves above the law.
If you enjoy tightly plotted contemporary mysteries featuring a strong female detective willing to fight against the odds to stay alive and solve the case, then you’ll enjoy the page-turning suspense of Above the Law.
