Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this captivating eARC.

Sydney Livingstone, a new police recruit / detective (unsure a new recruit become a detective immediately upon graduation without working patrol first) eventually has two involved murder cases to work concurrently. Sydney's former career was working as a tennis player on the professional circuit. That a new recruit who received two warnings would be put in such a challenging position is slightly implausible, but otherwise I found this book fresh, unique, and a wholly engaging read.

I highly recommend it for police procedural fans, and I cannot wait to see where Sydney's new career takes her next!

Thank you Netgalley and BooksGoSocial for the ARC. This book was amazing and captivating! I throughly enjoyed this fast paced and twisty book. The mistrust threaded through this book kept me coming back for more!

This was an interesting novel that keeps you guessing throughout. There's twists as well as a shocking reveal that I never saw coming,

What happens when someone takes the law into their own hands. In this book someone has decided that people are not being punished for their crimes and they are going to pay. There are suspicions that the criminal is from the police department because some of the things were not known to the public. This book grabbed me from the first chapter and I knew it was going to be a good read. A female rookie detective is treated poorly because she’s a rookie but she kept fighting. An interesting inside look at police department’s and how they handle when one of their own may be the criminal.

Sydney Livingstone is a retired championship tennis player who has become a police detective. Interesting that she has become a detective without seeming to have served time on the streets. Someone is killing people who have committed murder and been acquitted in a trial. All
indications are that someone in the police force is the guilty party. Sydney is one of the detectives assigned to find the killer. It was an interesting story, but both the writing and the characters were a bit flat. I am not connected to anyone in law enforcement, but the procedures seemed to me to be a bit unrealistic. Thanks to NetGalley for an arc with no pressure for a positive review.

Rookie detective Sydney Livingstone thought she was trading fame for peace when she left the high-stakes world of professional tennis for a quiet life in Walsh County, Ohio. Freshly engaged to her charming fiancé Enzo and armed with a badge, she imagined a slower pace, morning coffee, small town cases, and a sense of purpose. What she got was a nightmare! Great book! This book had suspense, murder, mystery, intrigue, and some shocking twists and turns! The story was very interesting! I definitely recommend reading this book! Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for sharing this book with me!

I picked up Serves You Right thinking it was a standalone detective thriller, and I’m a sucker for those, but quickly realized it’s the second in a series following Sydney Livingstone, a former tennis pro turned police detective. Thankfully, you don’t have to read the first book (Faults) to dive in here.

The story opens with a chilling premise: Frank McBride and his wife Sheila agree to open their marriage, rules and all, but Frank has no intention of playing fair. He falls in love with another woman, Andrea, and decides the only way to be with her is to eliminate Sheila. His solution? Murder, and then a lazy attempt at cover-up by rolling her body down a mountain, hoping nature will take care of the rest.

Shockingly, Frank is found not guilty. But justice doesn’t end in the courtroom.

Soon, Frank is attacked and left in a coma, and another known wife-killer turns up dead. A mysterious vigilante known only as TheEnforcer is targeting men who’ve gotten away with murder, and he’s gaining a following on the dark web.

Enter Detective Sydney Livingstone, a sharp, determined, and still, somewhat new detective who’s pulled into the case. As she investigates Frank’s assault and tracks TheEnforcer, she must race to figure out who’s next on the hit list… and whether the vigilante might be closer than anyone suspects.

Orion Gregory’s writing reminded me of authors like Lisa Gardner and Tana French with its smart mix of courtroom drama and cat-and-mouse suspense. Sydney Livingstone is a character I want more of and it made me want to go back and read the first. The ending left enough open to make me hope there’s a third installment on the way. 🤞🏻

Dark witty fast paced read mystery that will have you on edge loved how the story line came together thank you for this read

This book was unlike any crime fiction I have read before! In this book we follow Syd, a rookie cop, as she is put on the case of revealing the identity of a vigilante that she came across whilst surfing the dark web. With so many questions and unexplained murders this book was extremely bingeable, I read it in one day! Getting the perspective on many of the characters in the police force as well as the occasionally chapter from the vigilante was what made this book so interesting to me. This book has you questioning who our guy could be up until the very last page! This author truly is a genius at writing the tiniest little clues for us to try catch and I’ll definitely be reading anything else they release

A sharp and gripping drama with all the thriller pacing we need. The heroine is one you root for an instantly care about. Sydney is flawed,human and acts like we all do or can relate to. But she's a fine one to fall for with her grit and instinct in this investigation job she's taken on. But the current case is sending for a risk when all is much darker and murky the harder she digs. Injustice? Vigilante? This is a dark game being played and there's a need to find out who's pulling the strings before more people get hurt or innocents get stuck in the middle.
This book was a fab find.