First Love

A young woman is found strangled in her bed, her door broken open and her apartment torn apart. Was it a burglary that turned deadly, a chance attack, a scorned lover, or the work of a serial killer? Detective Erin O'Reilly, working with her K-9 partner Rolf and the Major Crimes squad, has to uncover what really happened before another person is killed.

The case looks straightforward at first, but nothing about it stays simple. Erin has long kept her private life separate from her job, though she has always understood the danger of falling for a man connected to the underworld. That danger becomes impossible to ignore when she and her boyfriend, the charming Irishman Morton Carlyle, are pulled into a conflict that forces them to pick a side.

Jealousy and deception run through every lead. The novel asks how well anyone can be trusted when the person closest to you may also be the one who threatens you most.