Muffin, baby of celebrity couple Jodee and Chazz, died from appeared to be cot death but the autopsy shows she had been severely shaken before her death. But by whom?

Enjoyable main story but the sub-plots involved what seemed to me unlikely behaviour. I'm looking at you, Neville Stewart. ( )

[b:Deep Waters|186795|Deep Waters|Jayne Ann Krentz|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536509s/186795.jpg|2197935] is the third in [a:Kate Charles|947|William Shakespeare|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1179017891p2/947.jpg]'s Callie Anson series. I call it the Callie Anson series because the publisher does, but the truly wonderful thing about this series is how Ms. Charles uses changing points of view not only to keep the reader turning pages to find out what's happening to each character, but also to involve us in the lives of a whole ensemble of interconnected people who swirl around Callie, a Church of England curate, and her boyfriend Mark, a Family Liaison Officer with the police. Each character is so individual that this never becomes confusing. The only other author who comes to mind who has done this was [a:Ed McBain|21318|Ed McBain|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1237947166p2/21318.jpg] with his 87th Precinct series, different though that is.

In [b:Deep Waters|186795|Deep Waters|Jayne Ann Krentz|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536509s/186795.jpg|2197935], the two criminal cases are related through the main characters who are dealing with them, but also because celebrity -- and specifically the celebrity created by reality-TV shows -- is an important factor in each. I'm sure one could poke holes in the plots, but it didn't matter to me as a reader because the characterization was so good and the social commentary so insightful. Although these books feature a clergy sleuth and an ongoing love story, I wouldn't call them "cozy" -- the keen eye Charles casts on contemporary society takes them out of that category. Highly recommended. ( )