Kim Brady, third generation NYPD, returns to the job after her father’s recent suicide and catches a career-making case—a mass shooting in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. There is one eyewitness, Leanne, but she can’t come forward because she’s transgender and she fears coming out. Kim resists her lieutenant’s demands to force Leanne’s cooperation for personal reasons. She’s also being undermined by someone inside the department who is tampering with evidence, threatening the other witness, stalking Leanne.
Kim’s father died under a cloud and her feelings for him are complicated. And as Kim realizes that someone in the department is behind the shooting, her personal feelings clash with her professional mission. That tension stretches her relationship with her fiancé to its breaking point. The mastermind behind the attack presses Kim’s soft spots to gaslight her. Unravelling the elaborate criminal conspiracy forces her to apply the lessons from her father’s experiences.
I found this to be a fast-paced police procedure storyline with short engaging chapters and an action-packed plot that moved quickly and efficiently showcasing the police officers, the good, the bad and sometimes the evil. Every crooked cop makes it harder for good ones to do their jobs. No one hates a crooked crop more than good cops and the determination shown by the good cops in the story to uncover and weed out the bad ones is totally on point.
My only negative is that I found the threat aspect a little unrealistic as Kim had spent her whole career playing by the book and then someone starts threatening her and that changes. However that didn’t take away from the storyline at all and I am awarding Past Grief 4 stars.
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