"Ice Shear"

M. P. Cooley is an author to watch!  "Ice Shear" is her first novel and I can hardly wait to find and read her second book, "Flame Out."  She also has a prequel to Ice Shear which is an e-book novella available for 99 cents.  If you haven't yet read "Ice Shear," you might want to read the prequel (if it has been released) before reading "Ice Shear."

The heroine in "Ice Shear" is June Lyons, a former FBI agent who left the bureau to care for her dying husband.  She and her young daughter now live in upstate New York with her father, who retired as the town chief of police.  He helps care for her daughter while she works the night shift in Hopewell Falls.

Hopewell Falls is a dying town with factory closures and high unemployment.  Most of the time June's job is boring as she drives drunks home or picks up doughnuts.  It's a far cry from her FBI tasks where she was assigned to a drug task force working with gangs.

However, when a congresswoman's daughter is found murdered, the FBI arrive and deputize her to work on the murder investigation with them.  One murder leads to more murders and the discovery of a meth lab.  She and her colleagues work around the clock to find the murderer and prevent other deaths.  She finds herself enjoying working alongside some of her former FBI colleagues despite the fact that some resent her leaving the agency.  I look forward to many more books by Cooley in this series!  pazt