Mostly Murders

“We both know one of these days I’ll blow my career up. Might as well be for a good reason.”

If you know the DI Ryan Hale series already, you know that DI Ryan Hale and DS Fiona Bennett have a longstanding friendship going back many years as colleagues and confidants. In the free short story Always Watching, R. K. Lynott explores an old case from Fiona’s point of view, letting us know exactly how deep the bond between Fiona and Ryan is and why, and also lets the readers in on some of Fiona’s background and her relationship with her mother. It is a story of doing the right thing versus following orders, of compassion versus authority, and of tough choices with lives, careers, and justice on the line.

The short story is fast-paced and tense and cements Ryan and Fiona as strong characters who follow their own inner moral compass and are willing to put almost everything on the line to defend the innocent and make things right in a world where status and hierarchy often outweigh virtue and morality.

Ryan and Fiona make a great professional team. They don’t always follow orders, or rules, or even the law, but when they choose to go rogue, they do so because the system makes mistakes or enforces commands that punish the victims or make it impossible for them to do the right thing.

Crime fiction – Police procedural