LAPD homicide detective Niels Madsen is on his way to work when he gets in the middle of a tense situation: a rookie cop has his weapon pointed at an intellectually disabled man who's standing next to a dead body and holding a gun in his hand. Luckily, Madsen is able to de-escalate the situation before learning that the mentally disabled man he just helped, Cisco, is in fact an ex-con and a brutal killer for one of L.A.'s toughest gangs. While the higher-ups are pressuring Madsen to arrest the ex-con, Cisco swears that he would never hurt his dead friend, who lived with him in a group home for people with special needs. Madsen must confront his instincts and his biases to reconcile the brutal murderer from the gentle man he's become.
This is a fantastic police procedural with a twist. It's clever, it's funny, and it manages to confront a lot of biases without clobbering the reader over the head with them. I absolutely loved this, and highly recommend it to fans of police-based mysteries.
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