9th Girl / Tami Hoag / 405 pages

Hoag does a great job of merging the personal and professional lives of her homicide detectives in this story.  Lots of action.  Twists and turns of plots.  Grisly detail.  (She almost got me at her description of eating cottage cheese at an autopsy while the pathologist is scraping maggots off a skull.)  Nonetheless, this suspense novel is more about the cops who have to deal with the twisted minds of all types of criminals...even the ones who live in nice houses.