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Guardians of the Night by Alan Russell

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Brief synopsis (no spoilers)
Detective Gideon and his K-9 partner Sirius are assigned to the Special Cases Unit in LA. They face drones, fires, and several psychopathic characters- only one of them is in prison, though.

 Category
Mystery, fiction

 Why I chose this book
Kindle First a few months ago

 My personal opinion (the review)
This was a good book. It had lots of internal conflict and gadgetry, which I like. I prefer the mystery stories that can be solved with close examination, but definitely did not qualify. Gideon pulled all kinds of external info from his police sources. It was an interesting story, though. The angel portion of the story pulled me in, but the rest of it kept me interested.

 Warnings:
Language - a couple instances, minor
Violence - a few instances and memories, none graphic
"Adult" situations - "lovemaking" mentioned, scenes ended with no details
Death - yes, but not of major characters, and none graphic

 Movie rating equivalent
PG-13

 Protagonist description
Gideon is a good cop, but feels he's being pulled in bad directions

 Point of view of story
First, from Gideon

 Book length
Longer

 Story flow
Lagged a couple times, but not bad

 Grammar and spelling issues
None

 Character connection (no spoilers)
I'd like to know more about Lisbet (the girlfriend) and Gideon's wife

 For series:
Independent or integral (stand-alone or back story dependent)
Independent, apparently. I didn't know it was a series until I finished it and then noticed the subtitle "A Gideon and Sirius Novel Book 2"

 Series review as a whole
I've only read one, so I'm not sure. But this one was good enough to make me want to read Book 1

 If you only have time for one, read: (which one)
Maybe any of them, not sure

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