Superior's Jewel

Instead of living it, a 911 operator writes about murder. Not a bad way to go through life, if you think about it. In Superior's Jewel, the first installment of the Apostle Islands Trilogy, Dimich tells the story of Kat LeNoir, a dauntless street sergeant with the Minneapolis Police Department who possesses courage and confidence until shooting a man to death in the line of duty. A second near-death encounter depletes her ability to serve the citizens or command her patrol any longer and emptied of life, fearful of failure, she resigns. Returning home, Kat becomes immersed in the crosscurrents of the town's first murder and a persistent homicide detective searching over two years for the killer of sixteen-year-old girls. It's clear nothing will stand in the detective's way of catching the crazed killer-especially a lady cop who couldn't hack it.