Big Sick Heart: A Detectives Seagate and Miner Mystery

It's just another job to police detective Karen Seagate and her partner Ryan Miner. Because Karen is the chief's least favorite cop, she gets lots of lousy assignments, and providing security to a couple of guys debating stem cell research is one of those. Listening to the two debaters go on about football for hours afterwards while she's stuck drinking club sodas (and dying for a real drink) is the icing on the cake. But when one of the debaters, Arlen Hagerty, is murdered that night, what had been a boring job becomes a high-profile case. Working with her young partner, Seagate has to confront a host of her own issues, starting with a broken-down family and her own drinking. The Chief is breathing down her neck, trying to push her in directions that bring him favorable publicity rather than moving the case forward, which only makes things worse. As Seagate moves forward with the case, her own life goes more deeply into crisis mode.