EW PICK Chicago cop Craig McHugh is working undercover to expose a heroin ring; back home, his bored wife, Leslie, is tempted by a come-on from a friend of her teenage daughter's. Meanwhile, the daughter gets nabbed possessing a small amount of drugs. Schwegel, an Edgar winner for her debut, Officer Down, weaves these three subplots together not only for quickening suspense but also to achieve something more. She creates a portrait of a family in crisis, and her vivid characterizations -- stressed husband, yearning wife, floundering daughter -- lift the thriller plot to literary-novel status. A-.

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“This pitch perfect portrait of a family in crisis reinforces Schwegel's position as one of today's top authors of hard boiled police procedurals." -Publisher's Weekly *Starred Review “In her third novel, Schwegel ventures away from genre conventions, offering a hybrid with believably complex characters and an effective sense of perilous unpredictability." -Kirkus Reviews “In Schwegel's capable hands (she won an Edgar Award for Officer Down), her story never falters, and the surprise ending both satisfies and allows the reader to hope that the McHughs will be alright. This is noir fiction at its best." -Library Journal