Book Review: Can't Go Back by Debra Webb

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Birmingham detectives Kerri Devlin and Luke Falco arrive at the scene of a double homicide to discover that nothing makes sense. A woman and her child are dead, and though the husband says he killed them, the evidence says otherwise. Why would a man confess to unspeakable murders he didn't commit? What starts as an open-and-shut case explodes into a web of new leads. Devlin and Falco get to work tracking down every single one - including a disturbing connection between the murder and Falco's dark past. Falco knows the inciden from eight years ago will jeopardize the partnership he's built with Devlin, both on and off the job. If he could go back, he would - but what happened happened, and there's a murderer on the loose. Devlin and Falco must slog through the pain to get to the truth; and so far the only truth they know is that everyone is lying. ~~~~ This is the third book in a series. The relationship between Devlin and Falco probably developed in previous books and for that reason it may have been beneficial to read them first. But this is a police procedural story, so previous books don't have any affect on the current story. Falco's past is about his previous position as an undercover narcotics agent. That is the past that comes back to haunt him. Devlin and Falco have a romantic relationship, which is what probably came to be in the first two books. I'll have to read the next book to see what happens next. For a police procedural it was very well written and well thought out. I've been reading so many thrillers lately that this was so mild in comparison. But a good story nonetheless; a story I could not for the life of me figure out (I wouldn't make a very good detective). I look forward to reading the next book in the series.