Rules Of Prey

Quintessential 90s police procedural, with all the racism, misogynism, and homophobia certain people swear was okay back then, because they were “different times”.

What I appreciate in this is that Sandford doesn't try to sand off the edges, Davenport is not the “one good cop”, he's probably the worst of them. It's fashionable to say that these days you couldn't publish a book like this, but the whole Davenport series was re-released starting in 2018, so it's obviously not true. But you definitely need to put away the modern sensibilities to read it.