A Punishing Breed, Frost - B+

                This debut novel is very good and features LAPD Detective DJ Arias. A murder at a small liberal arts college brings in Arias and his team. The womanizing VP of Development is found stabbed in his office, and a few days later, so is his secretary, who maintained a blue notebook tracking his many conquests. Privilege and the institutional protection of a sexual predator is the theme. How this turns out as a series is not quite obvious, as some of the people working at the college are better drawn and more interesting than the detective.