22 Seconds (2022) is one of the Women’s Murder Club (novel series).

A good one.

Detective Lindsay Boxer‘s daughter is age-4. That’s how I keep track of these newer books. 😀

Fictional California has enacted a NEW law restricting the most dangerous firearms. Needless to say, some of the Gundamentalists are revolting.

There’s buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing the Mexican border ahead of new restrictive gun laws. Before Lindsay can act, her top informant tips her to a case that hits disturbingly close to home.
 
Former cops. Professional hits. All with the same warning scrawled on their bodies:
 
You talk, you die.