Neely Jones The Medusa Pool Author:M. K. Wren When Neely Jones, the only African American and female member of the Taft County Police Department, finds someone has added her name as a write-in candidate on the ballot for the position of sheriff, she doesn't expect to actually get elected. In fact, it's the last thing she wants. Her prejudiced coworkers already resent her. She and her boyfri... more »end, a gentle Japanese marine biologist named Jan Koto, regularly experience racial harassment from a local group of skinheads. These actions, once reported, go largely ignored by the present bigoted Sheriff, Giff Wills, who doesn't hide his purely political reasons for hiring Neely in the first place. But she does win, and despite having a staff that is near mutiny and somewhat expecting to fail, Neely decides she can do it. Within her first few days in the office, Jan Koto is found shot and then drowned in a tank of rare jellyfish at the Oceanographic Center; it is up to a devastated Neely to keep her cool if she is to find her lover's killer. M. K. Wren writes an exceptionally powerful and moving book about feisty sheriff-in-spite-of-herself Cornelia Faith Jones, who, with her inspiring strength and determination, will be sure to have readers rooting for her every step of the way.« less