Tried the sample on Kindle first and liked the book enough at that point to buy it. I was looking for another series after finishing Vermilion but this will not be it.
I enjoyed the multiculturalism of the cast of characters but felt it was pushed a little too far when the guy in the wheelchair showed up with his Chinese boyfriend. I liked that the hero was flawed, I thought it was a great device that he had won the Pulitzer and given it back for lying. Sometimes people do bad things or silly things and they can't always be explained. Especially at the beginning Justice doesn't attempt to explain himself and I was hoping it wouldn't all work out to some pat solution where it was all justifiable, but of course it did.
The killer was unexpected but I didn't really buy it. The original police suspect, what kind of gang drive by shooter gets out to check on his victim after pulling the trigger? That didn't really make sense either. So much was made of the blood being on his clothes but he was found by police crouched over the body ten minutes after shots were fired, of course there was blood on his clothes.
The book was enough to carry me to the end but not on a level that I would need to continue so my search for a new series continues.