New Police Mystery

Stella Hardesty dispatched her abusive husband with a wrench shortly before her fiftieth birthday. A few years later, she's so busy delivering home-style justice on her days off, helping other women deal with their own abusive husbands and boyfriends, that she barely has time to run her sewing shop in her rural Missouri hometown. Some men need more convincing than others, but it's usually nothing a little light bondage or old-fashioned whuppin' can't fix. Since Stella works outside of the law, she's free to do whatever it takes to get the job done.

Professor Dena Montgomery might be young, only 19, but she is a mathematical Olympiad with a genius-level IQ, earning a PhD for her at 16. Yet, her large family calls her The Absentminded Professor, with good reason. Dena can recite the calculus for the Pythagorean theorem as if it is her home address, but can’t, for her life, remember what is on her grocery list or whether she eats three meals on any given day.

Calvin and Darren, two grade school friends, go off to college to become police officers. Instead, they receive a crash course in criminal justice. After veteran officer Harrison loses his family at the hands of a drunk college kid, he vows to seek revenge. He and his circle of fellow officers form a tag team on a murder frenzy designed to get payback. Calvin doesn't drink, and he warns Darren after learning of this deadly coalition. Darren doesn't listen until Calvin falls prey to these officers. Now his guilt forces him to avenge the death of his friend.