Closer Still

the long version

"Detective Superintendent Jack Deacon doesn't take kindly to personal threats, so when a local gangster starts taking an interest in his partner Brodie Farrell and their infant son, Deacon is prepared to do whatever it takes to protect them. Brodie is an expert at finding things, but she'd rather not find crime boss Joe Loomis on her office doorstep in a pool of blood, with his own knife buried to the hilt in his side. With his dying breath Loomis tries to name his killer - and that single syllable threatens to tear her family apart."--Publisher description.