Mother of Valor is the fourth in Gary Corbin’s Valorie Dawes Thrillers. Valorie (Val) Dawes is molested at age twelve by a family friend, “Uncle Milt.” Though Val eventually reports it to her family, no one believes her except her Uncle Val, a cop. He’s shot in the line of duty before he can bring Milt to justice. A year after she’s is raped, her mother walks out of Val’s life. Much later, Val follows in her Uncle Val’s footsteps and becomes a policewoman. As a rookie, she faces the usual harassment of any younger cop by older policemen as well as the rampant sexism in her department.
Rookie cop Val has been on duty less than a year and has already fired her weapon three times—with two fatalities. When she works investigation a prostitution operation, she blows the lid off a national sex trafficking ring with ties to a violent right-wing group. Val’s mother unexpectedly shows up again just as the heat is on the police department to keep Fourth of July celebrations safe in Clayton.
Author Corbin manages to integrate pedophilia, childhood sexual abuse, sex trafficking, sexism, workplace harassment, and right wing politics into a police procedural, keeping the Valory Dawes series en pointe with current events. Corbin also does a good job getting into the head of a young abused woman finding her way back to trusting men.
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