Major Nathan Malone expects his DWI charge will get him fired from the Office of Special Investigations (OSI).  It seems the axe is about to fall when Nathan is released into the custody of Major Wilson, aide to Lieutenant General Neal Crenshaw, the Air Force Academy superintendent. To Nathan’s surprise, he finds he is being released to head up an investigation into the deaths of two Academy cadets, subjects in a sex scandal. General Crenshaw feels he is about to get fired because of the scandal.

Senator Kevin Smith is conducting his own investigation into the scandal and appoints his assistant, Kaitlin Barlow, to become part of the OSI team. When Nathan discovers that Kaitlin is the twin sister to Christina Barlow, an earlier murder victim, and has the power of the Senator’s office behind her, all hell breaks loose. Senator Smith would like nothing better than to wield the axe.

Suspicions mount up and the reader is kept glued to the edge of their chair by the twists and turns in the investigative process. While I am not usually a murder mystery lover, THE SHATTERED BLUE LINE grabbed my interest and held it right through the final page. Patrick A. Davis has a style of writing that wraps the reader up in the story.