4 stars

Great follow up from the last book, where Shaw is still suffering the after effects of trusting Matty. 
I enjoyed that North found some of his feet in this one. Not all the way there but he started standing up for himself, and when it may have been easier to fall back into regular patterns he didn't. He remembered why he was where he was and stuck to his guns.
The guys spent a lot of the time still circling and after so long hiding their feelings neither one wanted to come out and talk about them for fear of the other not reciprocating. But as is life everything moves in a way that is forcing them to acknowledge it. 
The case was interesting. I'll be honest, I really don't like Pari and find her extremely annoying when she has page time. The way she carries on is ridiculous and in no way funny or cute. She deserves to be kicked out into the streets. The fact that she didn't have a lot of page time here worked in this books favour. 
I liked the twists and turns as they worked their way through the case. I'm interested to see what comes of the slasher case as that is unbelievable what they know and what is being covered up.
I wasn't sure how I felt about Jadon, (also not a big fan of the daddy thing) but the ending made me like him a bit, the way he handled Shaw when he was down was well done.
Looking forward to seeing how this all ends.