Set the Night on Fire

Set in Los Angeles in 1971, Dial’s engrossing fourth Josie Corsino mystery (after 2014’s Unnatural Murder) charts the beginning of Josie’s career with the LAPD. Three years after graduating from the police academy, Josie has been working for two years as an undercover cop (or UC) in a radical group called the Workers Liberation Movement. What Josie really wants is a patrol job—and to be one of the first women assigned to one. But before she can move on, Josie must help find another UC, Dave Soriano, who has disappeared. Josie partners with Charlie Jones, who’s also undercover in the WLM, to track down Soriano. Josie and Charlie need to work quickly to untangle a very twisted web of love and betrayal—before higher-ups in the LAPD expose their true identities, putting their lives in even more danger. Dial’s real-life experience in the LAPD allows her to cleverly delve into the mind-set and mental processes of UCs as they deconstruct the city’s crimes. (Mar.)