Every move that Danny and Jen and their colleagues make in investigating the case is being shadowed by the congressman's own hired guns, but that is unavoidable. Sara was married to Bradley Benton III, the son of a prominent California congressman, who is being groomed to succeed his father. Sara Benton and her two young children were brutally murdered in what appears to be a home invasion. But when he and Jen land a high-profile murder case, he hopes the adrenaline and the focus on something else will help distract him from his pain. His pain is nearly constant, and can only (barely) be controlled by Vicodin and/or vodka. When the book opens, Detective Danny Beckett has just returned to the department from an extended medical leave following an injury inflicted by a criminal, an injury that nearly cost him one of his hands. The good news is, The Pain Scale is just as good as its predecessor. When I saw that he was getting ready to release the second book in his series featuring Long Beach police detectives Danny Beckett and Jen Tanaka, I hoped that the talent he showed previously would again be evident. Tyler Dilts' debut crime novel, The King of Infinite Space really wowed me when I read it back in 2010, and in fact, it made my list of the best books I read that year.
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