I must admit that I was expecting either a mystery or a police procedural at least from a book that identifies itself as a mystery. This is the first book I have read by this author and in this series, so this may be par for the course or unusual, I would not know.
Given that, the mystery was weak and easily solved. If I wanted to read social commentaries (as I do from time to time), I would have looked in fiction/literature. As a police procedural, it was fairly good. As a social commentary, it was a little over the top, but still good. But I still get back to the fact that it was called a mystery.
I don’t want to get into the discussing the mystery at all but just a little is enough to give it away. If you are looking for a social commentary on deportation procedures and mistakes, the plight of undocumented immigrants and the abuse and exploitation of children, this could be the book for you. It wasn’t what I was expecting and would not have been my choice had I known what it was about.
I received a digital ARC copy of this book from the publisher, Kensington, via Netgalley.
