The Dead Sit Round in a Ring: Detective Stella Mooney #1

Detective Stella Mooney has a vicious little vodka habit and a badly shredding love-life, but mostly what she had is a case that’s driving her crazy, about four cult-members who committed ritual suicide and the thug who seems to have…come along for the ride? The plot’s a cracker, but the secret pleasure here is Stella: messy, conflicted, angry, aging, and extraordinarily interesting.