Amazon.co.uk Review
Tami Hoag's new police procedural thriller
Dust to Dust is intelligent about the canteen culture of machismo and taking care of our own, and about the human cost of that. Smart, honest Minneapolis cops like Sam Kovac and his woman partner Tinks Liska have learned to weigh these two together. The duo persists in investigating the death of Andy Paxton, a gay police officer, which everyone, especially the head honchos, wants closed as soon as possible.
Before Andy died he was investigating the death of another gay cop, and suspected a cover-up. His father was crippled in the shootout that made the reputation of the Twin Cities' favourite media cop. Someone is threatening Tinks' children; and Kovac finds himself in love with Amanda, Andy's tough boss and about the least popular policewoman in town.
This is an ingenious character-driven book which works through an intelligent use of misdirection and some fair-minded games with forensic evidence. Kovac, whose hero-worship of the man Mike Fallon used to be, does not stop him thinking as a passionate detective who never forgets that the victim is his boss, not the rules or police culture. --Roz Kaveney
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Product Description
The death of internal affairs investigator Andy Paxton is a potential political bomb for the Minneapolis Police Department... Andy Paxton was gay and he was investigating a possible cop connection in the brutal murder of another gay officer. But Andy's death looks like suicide, or an unfortunate and embarrassing accident, and the pressure is on from the top brass to close the case as soon as possible. But the investigation's lead detective Sam Kovac is not convinced the case is as straightforward as it appears. As he digs deeper, it is looking very much like Paxton discovered something that got him killed. And he might not be the final victim...
