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I write about the stuff cops don't talk about, don't even think about in the middle of the night, because if they did, they'd never be able to go to work the next day.

In this stunning debut collection of short fiction, Laurie Lynn Drummond mines her eight years as a cop to tell the stories of five female police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In prose as unflinching as the job itself, each woman's story -- like each call in a police officer's day -- varies in its singular drama, but all the tales illuminate the tenuous line between life and death, violence and control, despair and salvation.

Revealing the humanity, compassion, humor, tragedy, and, ultimately, the redemption hidden behind the "blue wall," these stories are "like the memory of a loved one passed, [they] linger long past their last breath" (San Diego Union-Tribune).