Widows' Watch — Nancy Herndon

Elena Jarvis is an officer in the Crimes Against Persons department of the Los Santos, Texas, police. She's got a sharp mind and a strong sense of justice. She's also got a condescending boss, a chauvinist partner, and an overprotective narc ex-husband. But then, she always knew police work would mean dealing with troublemakers...

MURDERED BUT NOT MOURNED
When Boris Potemkin died, his not-very-bereaved widow insisted that God had struck him down for being so nasty. But in Elena's experience, God doesn't use handguns--and the battles that went on in the Potemkin family indicate that this was an act of murder, not divine retribution. Then, while investigating the background of the victim's estranged son, Elena discovers that Boris isn't the only man in the neighborhood to die under mysterious circumstances lately. Now Elena's searching for both a perpetrator and a pattern--to find out who's making widows out of the women of Los Santos...