Lynda La Plante

After a disastrous riot at Barfield Prison, Helen Hewitt helps investigate an inmate's suspicious death. When the governor of Barfield is subsequently ousted, Helen takes the job, becoming the youngest woman in charge of an all-male prison. Determined to clean up the place, she causes resentment among both prisoners and officers with her new ideas and no-nonsense attitude. Despite the odds stacked against her, Helen works tirelessly to earn the respect...

"Vol. XXI: Ghost train: A teenager's death at a carnival may be connected to a series of crimes. Vol. XXII: Shooter: Walker obsesses over a crime family's misdeeds as they're tried for a deadly robbery"--Container.

Four women with nothing in common except a debt left by their dead husbands' criminal acts conspire to take fate into their own hands.