Ellen Kirschman has a long and storied career as a clinical psychologist, interacting often with police and fire departments. And she has written a number of books designed to teach both professionals and family members how to deal with the stress associated with these careers. Fortunately for the rest of us, Ellen decided to write novels based on an Ellen Kirschman-like character. Her name is Dot Meyerhoff, and she is a police psychologist. Call Me Carmela is #5 in the series.
All of her Dot books are good. This one is a little different than the others. Dot's very close friend, Fran, is the godmother of an adopted girl, who is now eighteen and wants to find her birth parents. Because of Dot's relationship with Fran, who is also a police widow, Dot decides to help Ava in her search. You will be very interested to see how this affects Ava's adoptive parents. And there will, of course, be a number of police veterans as part of the story.
As usual, Ellen makes you feel for the main character in the story along with a few of the others. In this case it's Ava as well as Ava's adoptive parents and several others. You will definitely have to read Call Me Carmela to see who these "several others" are. I'm not going to tell you. And after you read CMC, and if you haven't read her first four, you might want to pick those up too.
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