At Risk by Patricia Cornwell Monique Lamont is the DA in Boston; she’s aggressive, demanding and self-centered. Winston Garano (Win) is a Massachusetts State Police investigator assigned to Lamont; he’s a loner and questions her motives. She’s called him back from a class at the National Forensic Academy in Nashville to stick him with a cold Tennessee case that she thinks will look good for her and the smarmy Massachusetts governor. At Risk is the governor’s (really Lamont’s) new crime initiative to get offenders off the street so society is less at risk. Win phones a colleague at the seminar to look into the cold Nashville cash. He’s stuck in Boston because when he went to Lamont’s house to tell her he was quitting, he killed a scumbag who’d raped and was about to murder her. These two subplots are brought together in this rather bland read. |