Made for TV cont (again x9)

 Bones are Forever by Kathy Reichs 

This was hard if you can't handle when kids are the victims. I thought this was going to be fairly simple: prostitute is killing her unwanted babies so she can keep making money. It ended up being so much more complicated than that. For starters she wasn't really a prostitute. Her pimp was a pimp but he wasn't her pimp; he was trying to stop her from hooking because he was her step brother and he was looking out for her. Also, she had some sort of cognitive disability (it wasn't specified) and she didn't really realize she was pregnant until after she had given birth and the first time she had a baby the father had told her she made the baby sick and it was a stillborn so if she got pregnant again to just get rid of it. Real winner that one, but we will get back to him. So, Tempe and Ryan are chasing her all over Canada because she left their jurisdiction and went back home. When they get there we meet Ollie, the first person she was involved with after her break up with Pete, who is also a cop. And he knows one of the prostitutes that the original (Alice) lived with before moving. So he gets involved. Then there is a drug war. We meet Nellie, who turns out to be Alice's sister and the step sister of the pimp; Scar. Nellie wants her brother's body exhumed and during that investigation Tempe learns that there was a second body buried. So, in addition to the drug war, which gets Scar (the pimp) killed. Alice also gets killed while talking to Tempe. Nellie is the only sibling left. Tempe learns about gold and diamond mines. Turns out the siblings were killed because their deadbeat dad left them land that's worth millions. Tempe gets kidnapped; she did try to call Ryan but he was in an interrogation but the hotel desk clerk saw it happen, got the license plate number and called it in. They found her in an abandoned gold mine where they father Alice's first baby was going to put her, with Alice (who he killed). But Ryan, Ollie, and another local cop got there in time. Nellie was the only sibling left and she was easy to manipulate so they were going to get her to sign over the deed to the land so they could get the money but now she will be rich. See, much more complicated than I originally expected. Three cases got solved. Not as good as some of these books, but not as bad or hard to deal with as the first book that focused on child victims either.