The Front by Patricia Cornwell is the second novel in the Win Garano series.
This book had a publication date of May 20, 2008.
The Front book description
D.A. Lamont has a special job for Garano. As part of a new public relations campaign about the dangers of declining neighborhoods, she’s sending him to Watertown to “come up with a drama” and she thinks she knows just the case that will serve.
Garano is very skeptical, because he knows that Watertown is also the home base for a loose association of municipal police departments called the FRONT, set up in order that they don’t have to be so dependent on the state – much to Lamont’s anger.
Garano senses a much deeper agenda here – but he has no idea just how deep it goes. In the days that follow, he’ll find that Lamont’s task, and the places it leads him, will resemble a house of mirrors.
Everywhere he turns, Garano’s not quite sure if what he’s seeing is true.