Mallory's Oracle by Carol O'Connell, 286 pages

My supervisor swears by this author and series, so I thought I would give it a go. Mallory was found on the streets at 10, breaking into a Porsche, by cop Louis Markowitz. Instead of putting her into juvie, he instead took her home and his wife and him raised her. Now, Mallory is a cop herself, with Special Crimes, but when her father is found dead at the hands of a serial killer he'd been tracking, Mallory is determined to get justice.
This was not an easy read, but it wasn't a bad read. I'm going to try the next book in the series before I really decide if I like them or not.