Every Hidden Thing by Ted Flanagan

 

A pretty standard-typical urban thriller, everyone is corrupt in their own ways--the politicians, the police, the press, the paramedics--and the fact the city is kinda small and the relationships so tangled and crossed seems to make it darker and more cynical. The big narrative innovation, here, is the double-protagonist situation--themselves with a tangled and screwed up history. While I'm pretty sure the author intended the paramedic to be the hero of the novel, I think there's a case to be made that the reporter is. Not badly-written, even if there's a subplot that plausibly could have been excised, and there's some behavior late in the book that seems to run counter to what's established prior.