The Weight of the Shield: A Kat Booker Mystery
About
Every hero needs a team. This is where Kat’s begins.
Internal Affairs Detective Kat Booker has built her career on one principle: hold dirty cops accountable, no matter the cost.
When she’s assigned to investigate Officer Jesse Martinez for evidence tampering in a high-profile murder case, it should be simple. The evidence suggests he lied. The politics say bury him quickly.
But nothing about this case is simple.
The victim was a building inspector digging into suspicious code violations at properties owned by Tideview Reclamation Group. A corporation with enough money and muscle to make inconvenient people vanish. The prime suspect is a board member’s son, a man who walks through Tideview like he owns it. And Martinez? He’s not acting like a guilty cop—he’s acting like a man trying to hold back a storm no one else sees coming.
Kat joined IA to be better than the corrupt cops who got her father killed. Now she has forty-eight hours to decide: follow the manual that failed him, or trust her instincts and break every rule that actually matters.
And the only manual Kat trusts is the one in her gut.