If you like a lot of non-stop action and movement in your stories, then you should definitely take a look at this one.

This story does include including rape, sexual assault, and drug use. This especially touches on some power dynamics amongst wealthy families and also racial and family trauma. If these are triggers for you, this may not be the story for you. 

We first meet Detective Nikki Mayeaux as she's planning to commit murder. She's in place, hidden, armed, and ready. Until...someone else strikes minutes before her. As she flees the scene and arrives home, she gets the call that the case is hers. Hard to be motivated to find the killer when you planned to kill that person yourself. Everyone assumes Emma Courtland, the young girl who accused the victim (and I use that term loosely) of rape is the killer. Nikki is torn between trying to solve the case, and trying to help Emma at the same time. 

This story bounces through several characters: Keith, Nikki's ex-boyfriend and partner on this case, Nikki, and another traveling kid, who goes by Dread. We meet several other folks along the way, but the perspectives primarily come from these three. With the characters and locations, everything flowed well and I never found myself confused as to who each person was in the story. 

If you enjoy high intensity procedurals, New Orleans, and a side of corruption and revenge, this may be the book for you.