The Second Girl by David Swinson

 

I picked this up not knowing it was Book One of a series--but as Book One, it does a good job of introducing the major characters and putting them into position for a few follow-on stories, and it's set in a big enough city (DC) for future things to be reasonably plausible. The main is interesting--he has his lines, things he will not do, but they are probably not the lines you might want to expect from a retired cop; his secrets are probably even more not what you might want to expect. The story here has a strong whiff of *Taken* to it, but is otherwise reasonably OK, and the authorial voice is reasonably good and occasionally well-turned.