It’s 1988, and Ari Greene has been on the Toronto PD for five years. He is assigned to a Quebec–Vermont border town for its annual Fourth of July parade, where he is told to keep his eyes open: Intelligence has reported that an assassin is headed for the G7 meeting in Toronto. While walking the perimeter, he discovers two bodies. The highly trained assassin is an attractive young woman who makes her way to Montreal. She is adept at soliciting the help of men and then disposing of them as she proceeds toward Toronto. Once word is received that a woman committed the murders, Ari realizes he saw her on a bus and escalates the manhunt. She remains elusive, killing as she goes, and eventually slips past the authorities. A police sketch leads to a university student who is shot by Ari’s partner twenty-four hours before the summit. However, her identical twin is still free. In the end, she does not.
This is fine, but a genre switch in the eighth book of an almost two-decade-old series is a bit off-putting. I’ll look forward to the next straightforward police procedural.
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