Homicide detective Liam Paige tends to take matters into his own hands when the justice system fails. When his partner, Gabriel Hyde, catches Liam standing over the body of the last guy they were trying to catch, he’s horrified but is willing to look the other way if Liam agrees to leave homicide and promises to never kill again. Liam reluctantly agrees and has been good for a year until he learns that a serial killer is on the loose and is targeting law enforcement and has kidnapped Gabriel. Now, Liam has to save Gabriel and take down this serial killer and he doesn’t care what lengths he may have to go to for that to happen. Because when it comes to protecting Gabriel, there is nothing Liam wouldn’t do.

Considering this book deals with a serial killer and a morally gray homicide detective, I had a lot of fun with it. Liam was quite the character. He was a smart ass who hated everything and everyone except Gabriel. He was sarcastic and had a very skewed moral compass but he was also a genius and was very good at his job. Gabriel was kind of a saint for putting up with Liam’s antics. 

I’m not really sure why Liam became obsessed with Gabriel, I thought we might get to see more of the start of their partnership when we had those flashback chapters but we never really got that. It was simply a fact that Liam loved Gabriel and would do literally anything to have him and keep him safe. I would have liked to have seen more of a development there but I still enjoyed what we did get. And Liam’s rivalry with Gabriel’s cat was very entertaining. 

I also had fun trying to figure out who the serial killer was. I sort of figured it out but was only half right. It really was something seeing Liam do his thing and pick up on tiny details that no one else would. Was it realistic? No, probably not. But it was still impressive! Things wrapped up pretty nicely at the end of this one but I look forward to seeing what’s next for Liam and Gabriel - somehow I think meeting Gabriel’s family and trying to win over the cat will be harder for Liam than bringing down that serial killer!