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Sam Gordon
Author of Worthy is the Lamb: A Walk Through Revelation (Truth for Today)
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The book is set mainly in France, and opens with Commissaire Capestan being assigned to take charge of a new, isolated police team of misfits and troublesome officers. The creation of the squad is meant to place the officers somewhere out of the way, powerless but still employed by the police department. Then loads of cold cases are shunted their way. Along with the hopeless cases comes the blame of having solved nothing. It is a perfect cycle of justifying giving the team no support, so they are unable to effectively solve cases, and since they are not solving cases, they get no more support.
Capestan is a great lead, both powerful, a little off the rails, caring and committed to justice. This may have involved a past bit of vigilantism, but maybe she is trying to get control of her fiery temper? Can not tell, and do not care, because in this book she does not lose it much.
The other misfits are both endearing, hilarious and terrifying. There is a constantly sauced captain, a bestselling author whose scathing descriptions annoyed coworkers, a gambling addict, a commandant who was too skilled at investigating his fellow offices, a lieutenant with a history of injured partners, a cheerful empty-headed former pugilist, an IT expert who always focuses on the wrong information, a very reckless driver, and a captain with way too many connections to the press.
Together, their skills work well, and as 'cast-offs,' they form a familial bond. The cold cases that they work seem hopeless, but Capestan inspires, scolds and encourages them to work at it faithfully.
Very entertaining, funny, cozy mystery police procedural redemption story in modern-day France. I hope to read more with these characters. Highly Recommended.
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