Waiting on Wednesday (16) - A Killing in China Basin

This event is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine and features books that we are eagerly anticipating. My choice for this week is:

A Killing in China Basin

by Kirk Russell

Publisher: Severn House

Available on September 1st or Now

1st in a New Series

From the author's website:   

     A Killing In China Basin launches a series. There will be at least two books, maybe more with San Francisco homicide inspector, Ben Raveneau, and his partner, Elizabeth la Rosa. In this first, Raveneau and la Rosa have just been paired as working partners and are on-call waiting for their first case. The one they catch won't be easy to solve. The victim is an unidentified Jane Doe and the investigation goes a lot of places, including into the past. Since it's their first together they also have to figure out how to work together. They have to find a rhythm.
     The big city detective has been written every which way and some have done it very, very well. What I'm trying to do with Raveneau is first make him whole, so he stands as an interesting character, case or no case, so when the urgency of the investigation bleeds into life there's actually something there. He's in his fifties, nudging toward the end of his career, but without any desire to leave. He's a murder cop. It's what he knows, what he loves, and because I know the city I'm hoping I can write it well enough to make him part of it. Writing this novel and the one following it has also the result of an ongoing four or five year conversation with to San Francisco homicide inspectors, Joe Toomey and Holly Pera. I owe a lot to them.

This was a book that I discovered in the upcoming books section of Stop You're Killing Me!  If you haven't visited this extremely useful mystery site, you ought to.  I liked the setting of this new book and the cover was appealing to me.  It's one to try out.