When Miranda Jacoby is awakened at three a.m., she has a stoned husband and a dead body on her hands. The former was in her living room, the latter was propped up against a dumpster five miles away. She had no idea at the time how closely related the two would become. For five years, Miranda Jacoby worked as a detective with the Williamsburg, Virginia, police department. Five years waiting for a big case. And when she finally caught the case that every detective dreams of, it turned out to be almost more than she could handle. It would take every ounce of intelligence and determination she had to make it out alive. Addictions is a page-turner from beginning to end. It plays on the fears in all of usaour susceptibility to not only the known criminals, but also to the delicate, unknown psyche of our loved ones.