Another Girl

This suspenseful and deeply human crime novel, involving the search for a missing undercover officer, follows the Kings Lake Central Murder Squad in their most personal and perilous case yet.

In the latest installment of the DC Smith/Kings Lake Central Murder Squad series, readers find Detective Constable Serena Butler embedded in an undercover investigation into a large-scale narcotics operation. When DC Butler misses a scheduled check-in with her handler, after hinting that she was close to a breakthrough, the Kings Lake Central Murder Squad must mobilize to save one of their own. 

Though the officers have their hands full with an apparent hit and run, DCI Cara Freedman is determined to let nothing slow their search for DC Butler. As the investigation unfolds, the team is drawn into a perilous network of drugs, trafficking, and corruption with roots that stretch far beyond Norfolk. 

As the pressure mounts around Serena’s disappearance, the emotional stakes come not from melodrama, but rather from the quiet, credible bond between officers who trust one another with both their jobs and their lives.

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