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Finished Random Violence by Jassy Mackenzie, 1st in her Jade de Jong series starring a P.I. newly-returned to South Africa for a purpose, years after her police officer father's death. Another one of Soho's sale series I'm considering and a modern contrast to the vintage McClure I read just prior. It's interesting to see how much (and how little) has changed in the intervening decades. I'll probably end up getting both series for balance.
This particular story has a lot going on in it and is rather convoluted—possibly overpacked for a first entry—trying to have Jade deal with the old issues which were why she left South Africa, as well as a new investigative case, and some romantic relationship drama on top of that. And there was a tendency towards doing dramatic fake outs with last minute saves, both physically and emotionally. And it was pretty violent (but then, that was right there in the title). But the plotting and whodunnit made sense (and I liked that the P.I. had to do persistent legwork to gather and figure out all the clues; sometimes lesser crime thrillers tend to skimp on that and go straight to intuitive leaps or fortuitous evidence discoveries) and it wrapped up the loose ends by the end and hopefully it's more straightforward from here on.
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