For myself Olson's stories tend to be a hit or miss for me. This one was definitely a hit. I feel like we got a firmer grasp on the characters and I really enjoyed the plot in this one. I think I like this one a little bit better than the previous book.

In this book, the Alex and his BPI team are called out to go to Switch Creek, WI, where there was a mass murder of police office and office personnel. Right after one of their officers made an arrest of someone being a possible shade. During their investigation, the BPI find out that the chief of police was actually dirty. Could the murders be linked to the suspected shade? The dirty chief? Hector?

One thing I want to point out, the back cover says "the teams gets a call from Switch Creek, Wisconsin, where a twenty-something goth has been arrested on suspicion of being a shade." The person arrested was Aiden Kerns and there was not mention in the book with him being a goth. I don't know what happened there.

Overall, I liked this book. I felt like we get to know the characters a little bit better and they don't seem quite one dimensional. I liked this plot a little bit better because it is a little bit of trying to figure out the motivation of the killer(s).

One thing that bothered me about the story was the introduction of Kim Faraday (a new character who knows Jill Hadley). During Agent Hadley's internal thoughts we find out that Faraday is Vietnamese (or at least part). This bothered me because most of the other characters ethnicities is not stated (I'm assuming that much of them are white) and it sets white as the default.