Bad Girl

She never meant for it to happen. . . .For Chicago Thomas, aka Windy, it was an offer too good to refuse: the chance to head the forensics lab at the Las Vegas Police Department. With her six-year-old daughter in tow, Windy moves to Sin City hoping to start over with a loving fiancé—far from the sad memories of a first marriage that ended in tragedy. But the job of her dreams is about to take a nightmarish turn.She wanted to be a good girl. . . .Though the first murders appear to be random, they are savage in their intensity: an entire family, butchered in their own home. Only a few days later, another family meets the same grisly fate. To Ash Leighton, the enigmatic chief of the Metro Violent Crime Unit, the signs are clear: a show more serial killer is stalking Las Vegas.But she just couldn’t help herself. . . .In a breathless race against time, the lines between good and bad, right and wrong, begin to blur, and Windy and Ash find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other. In a town where nothing is what it seems, only the evidence doesn't lie. And Windy may have to pay for the truth with her life. Sometimes being good is dangerous. show less

This was a great book, and I look forward to reading more by this author. (I see she has a historical line as well as her newer crime/mystery books too.) Windy is a great character, not dull and boring in comparison to Kinsey in Grafton's alphabet books. Her relationship with her daughter Cate, her attraction to Ash, combined to make a character you could really like and admire. The story contained a lot of red herrings to throw you off the track of the serial killer, and it kept me engrossed long into the night when I should've been trying to get to sleep. :)

Fun read, didn't figure it all out until close to the end. Will release in the wild soon.