Red light [sound recording] / T. Jefferson Parker

Performed by Tavia Gilbert.

Unabridged

It's two years after the death of Tim Hess, her partner and the father of her child, and Merci is working hard to do her job, take care of her son, and hold it all together. She and her son are living with her father, and she is dating Mike McNally, a respected fellow officer. Merci and Mike are the golden couple on the force and even if Merci doesn't passionately love Mike, there's a sort of comfortable inevitability to it all. That explodes when a young prostitute, the mysterios Aubrey Whittaker, is found brutally murdered and Mike emerges as the primary suspect. The lead investigator on the case, Merci must do the unthinkable -- expose and arrest her lover. Sifting through the clues with a growing sense of panic and outrage in her gut, Merci has to work hard to balance where the truth leads her against where her heart is telling her to go. Meanwhile, an old unsolved case from the sixties is thrown on her desk -- and the two cases turn Merci's world upside down.