SARAH'S LIST

A Tucson cop catches a very strange case.

Sarah Burke and a new detective whose last name, Boganicevic, has been shortened to Bogey are sent to the scene of a murder at a high-end senior living home. A van used to transport residents crashed after the driver was chased down and shot dead by several men who’ve vanished despite being closely followed by the police. The discovery in the van of the driver's bloodstained jacket with $8,400 inside makes Sarah wonder why a low-paid man would have a bundle of cash. The victim was not DeShawn Williams, the usual driver, who was in an accident the night before. The staff’s decidedly mixed reactions to the replacement driver suggest that one man may have been mistaken for the other. Sarah and Jason Peete visit DeShawn in the hospital just in time to catch two men trying to remove him. Jason tasers one, but when the other tries to knife first Jason and then herself, Sarah’s forced to kill him, an incident that puts her on leave. Her housemates—her boyfriend, her depressed mother, and her drug-addicted sister’s very bright daughter—all attempt to help her deal with the trauma of killing someone. But even as Sarah, who’s known for her comprehensive lists, finds answers and crosses them off, more questions keep popping up.

A surprise ending and plenty of quirky characters add depth to this procedural.