02106cam a2200313 4500 412661197 TxAuBib 20200221120000.0 200128s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780316450584 HRD 27.00 0316450588 HRD 27.00 TxAuBib Kent, Kathleen, 1953- The burn [BOOK] / Kathleen Kent. 1st ed. New York ; Boston : Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2020. 337 pages ; 25 cm. Detective Betty Rhyzyk "There's not much that can make veteran detective Betty Rhyzyk flinch. But the physical and emotional wounds form her run-in with the doomsday cult the Family are still fresh, and she's having trouble readusting to everyday life. She's back on the job as a narcotics detective, but things aren't going as planned--not at the Dallas Police Department or on the streets, where confidential informers are turning up dead, and not at home, where her temper is threatening her relationship with her usually patient wife. To make matters worse, Betty suspects that her work partner is keeping dangerous company and keeping secrets that are getting people killed. Forced into therapy, stuck with a desk assignment, and tangled in domestic drama, Betty reaches her breaking point. She decides to go rogue, investigating her own colleagues and chaseing down possibly phantom sightings of the woman who took her hostage. The chase will lead her to the dark heart of a drug cartel terrorizing Dallas, where she'll come face-to-face with the terrifying, unforgettable villain known as El Cuchillo (The Knife).". 20200221. Women detectives Fiction. Psychic trauma Fiction. Drug traffic Fiction. Informers Death Fiction. Lesbian people Fiction. Dallas (Tex) Fiction. Mystery fiction. Detective Betty Rhyzyk.