Edge

It gets personal for the Chicago PD when an officer’s family member is the latest victim of a lethal new street drug called Edge. Running the case is Harriet, or Harri, Foster, who’s the best kind of police procedural lead: a tough but kind cop with simmering issues. She’s struggling to move on from the death of her son from gun violence and reluctantly getting the help that everyone but her thinks she needs when this perplexing, dangerous case blows up her chance of recovery. We also meet two forces at loggerheads in the community: the Gamon family that has a tight hold on the neighborhood’s drug trade and resulting downstream crime, and pastor Clevon Pope and his wife, Faith, who are trying to be a bright spot in the chaos. Readers will eagerly follow Harri (I put aside almost all of Thanksgiving reading this) as she puts her smarts and grit to work, and will relish the nailbiting ending to this engrossing psychological thriller.