The Fragile Edge

A sniper attack propels Latinx cop Jimmy Vega on a twisting hunt for a predator who stalks the unforgiving landscape of immigrant America. Probing beyond the hardships of the journey north, award-winning author Suzanne Chazins taut and timely novel explores the perils that await the hopeful once they reach their destination-and the price they must pay to survive...\r\n\r\nChazin explores that difficult place where cultures collide, with a heart filled with compassion. - William Kent Krueger on The Fragile Edge\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJimmy Vega straddles two worlds--the hardscrabble Bronx where he grew up as the child of a Puerto Rican single mother, and the upscale, mostly white, suburban county where he now serves as a police detective. Yet despite his sense of never belonging, hes a good and decent cop-even if the multi-million-dollar civil suit hes facing says otherwise.\r\n\r\nHis own troubles take a back seat when Vega learns that a court officer has just been shot and killed while transporting a controversial judge across the courthouse lot. Vega quickly surmises that the judge was the real target. Shes earned the ire of alt-right hate groups for going soft on undocumented defendants accused of petty crimes. The sole witness to the snipers identity is a Guatemalan girl traveling by bus from the border. And now, shes vanished-melted into a community fearful of the police. Her days are numbered if Vega cant get to her before the killer does.\r\n\r\nBut as Vega and his girlfriend, Adele Figueroa, head of the local outreach center, probe deeper into the shadowy farm community where immigrants toil in horrifying conditions, they tap into a chilling discovery. One that offers Vega a stark choice: keep quiet and be lauded as a hero, knowing he let the real villain go. Or risk everything for an ugly truth no one wants him to find...\r\n