Night Tremors

Rick Cahill's former partner on the Santa Barbara Police Department, Krista Landingham, asks him to check on a situation involving her nephew — and then turns up dead. The official ruling is accidental, but Rick is back in the city where his wife was murdered and where the police have never stopped treating him as a suspect, and everything about Krista's death feels wrong. The second Rick Cahill novel follows the investigation through San Diego's darker neighborhoods and into territory that threatens everyone Rick cares about.

Timothy McKean narrates with the grim persistence that the character's situation demands — Rick Cahill operates in a world that has already cost him everything, and McKean's voice carries the specific quality of someone continuing despite those losses. Anthony Award and Lefty Award finalist, Night Tremors established the series' characteristic territory: a flawed investigator in a city that hasn't forgiven him, pursuing justice through unofficial channels.