The Good Detective

Detective P T Marsh and his partner, Remy, are investigating what they feel is a hate crime. A young black teenager has been tortured, beaten, hanged, and set on fire. What Detective Marsh did was something no cop should ever do ... he tampered with the evidence. He removed the rope around the young man's neck in the hope that they can keep this part of his death secret. Amid rising racial tension and media scrutiny, P.T. uncovers something sinister at the heart of the young boy's murder--a conspiracy leading all the way back to the time of the Civil War. This is the first in a series featuring P T Marsh. He's always been respected as a good cop, but the death of his pregnant wife and son has him reeling. He's drinking way too much, but it's the only way he can put his memories to rest. If he continues the drinking, it won't be only his health affected .. it may cost him his job. There's lots of action with frequent changes of direction and multiple varied suspects that bear watching. Marsh is an interesting character, not the pillar of the framework around which law enforcement is build. Characters are deftly drawn amid an intricate plot. I look forward to reading the books following. Many thanks to the author / Putnam Books / Netgalley for the digital copy of this crime fiction. Read and reviewed voluntarily, opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.