If You Hear Her / Shiloh Walker / 387 pages / R. T. Reviewer's Choice Award

If You Hear Her is a novel of romantic suspense.  I have to say that the romance kept getting in the way of the suspense.  I actually found myself skipping graphic passages to advance the story.  This a real pageturner involving a cop on leave after being shot by and killing his partner, an independent female chef, a quirky best friend who is secretly an author, an abused wife who has finally escaped her abusive police officer husband, and a sadistic serial murderer.  (Something for everyone!)  Unfortunately, the story is continued in If You See Her, and is not resolved in this book.