Parental Source

Chris Freeburn's Parental Source follows Virginia's innovative Child Crimes Division, headed by the lovely chief Rayven Forrester, with her brother, Quinton, as lead counsel and her ex-lover and old friend Preston Richards as lead investigator, as the capable if nepotistic trio search for a murderer and inaugurate a new series. Rayven, a trained social worker, struggles to remain tough in the face of multiple killings, and there's plenty of family bickering, but Freeburn's solid grasp of police procedures lends credibility to this competent tale.