Broken Shields: A Kat Booker Mystery

Elliot Stone

Mar 2026 · Kat Booker Mysteries Book 2 · Randy Miramontez

About this ebook

When a Tideview police officer is murdered at the infamous Dry Dock 4, the department wants a quick arrest.

IA Detective Kat Booker wants the truth.

The evidence is gift-wrapped, the suspects are too convenient, and the official narrative is a lie Kat refuses to accept. As she peels back layers of institutional rot, the investigation drags her back to the one place she swore she’d never return—the same dock where, twelve years earlier, she lost everything.

Kat isn’t just hunting a killer anymore. She’s hunting the people who run the city.

With the Police Chief closing ranks and the Mayor pulling strings, Kat becomes more than an investigator—she becomes a problem. In a department where loyalty is bought and silence is survival, she’s forced to confront a truth that cuts deeper than any bullet: what happened to her all those years ago wasn’t an accident. It was betrayal.

And this time, she doesn’t know who to trust.

In a city of broken shields, the truth is the only weapon she has left.

Ratings and reviews

Broken Shields opens with Internal Affairs detective Kat Booker being called to Dry Dock 4, where the murdered officer turns out to be her friend and one of the few people in the department she still trusts. The novel widens from a homicide into something nastier: a network of buried evidence, civic corruption, real-estate predation, and old wounds tied to the same dock years earlier. Broken Shields is for people who want a murder mystery with civic poison in its bloodstream.

About the author

Elliot Stone writes mystery thrillers and police procedurals, fueled by a lifetime of reading and a dangerous surplus of ideas. While new to publishing, he’s no stranger to the genre, and is currently at work on the Kat Booker Mysteries—a series he finds as rewarding to write as he hopes readers will find to read.

When he’s not plotting crimes, Elliot can be found in the rolling hills of Fallbrook, California, hanging out with his partner in crime, Ruth, and their ever-growing cast of characters: a blended family, several dogs, chickens, and a few rabbits. During the growing season, he tends a small vineyard and attempts to make a killer Petite Sirah. He also enjoys tempting fate over a game of chess (losing builds character—allegedly).