Body Count

This isn't a romance. This isn't happily-ever-after. This is a mystery. And, like me, it's pretty messed up.

Detective Gray Dulac is in freefall: a disfiguring injury; a crumbling relationship; a slowly imploding career. But there's a kind of clarity to it all. A detachment. A way of being in the world when you can't screw things up any more than you already have.

When he stumbles across a wounded young man outside a party, though, Gray is struck by the similarities between their injuries, an...