I'm not going to give this a rating because I really like the author as a person (met her at an author event through the library), so I feel like any rating I assign would be biased.

The writing style didn't engage me as much as I thought it would--it deals with a lot of issues at the same time, all of which are important--so the plot ended up being difficult for me to follow. But I also don't read many thrillers, so that might be on me. Regardless, it's nice to see a detective series in which the protagonist (and most of the side characters) are characters of color, and it's clear that Ausma is conscious and critical of police corruption in areas around the country. It looks like she'll continue to address these issues in subsequent books.