Book ~ "Dangerous Ends" (2017) Alex Segura

From Goodreads ~ Pete Fernandez has settled into an easy if somewhat boring life as a PI. He takes pictures of cheating husbands. He tracks criminals who've skipped bail and he attends weekly AA meetings The days of chasing murderous killers are behind him. Or are they?

When his sometimes partner, Kathy Bentley, approaches him with a potential new client, Pete balks. Not because he doesn't need the money but because the case involves Gaspar Varela, a former Miami police officer serving a life sentence for the murder of his wife - one of the most infamous crimes in Miami history. The client? None other than Varela's daughter, Maya, who's doggedly supported her father's claims of innocence.

As Pete and Kathy wade into a case that no one wants, they also find themselves in the crosshairs of Los Enfermos, a bloodthirsty gang of pro-Castro killers and drug dealers looking to wipe Pete off the Miami map. As if trying to exonerate Varela wasn't enough, they find themselves entangled in something even older and more surprising - a bloody, political hit ordered by Fidel Castro himself, that left a still-healing scar on Pete - and his dead father's - past.

Pete is a former newspaper reporter and editor in Miami. He eventually got fired and is now working as a PI following cheating husbands. Kathy, his friend and former newspaper colleague, is now working freelance and writing books. She gets approached to investigate the death of Carmen, a wife and mother who was murdered ten years ago. Gaspar, her husband and an ex-cop, is in prison for killing her. He's always maintained his innocence as has Maya, his daughter. Maya hires Kathy (and Pete) to find out who really killed her mother and assures that Kathy will be able to write a book about it, regardess of the outcome. This gets them tangled up with Los Enfermos, a pro-Castro gang in Miami, who want to put a stop to them.

This is the third in the Pete Fernandez series (I read the first ones in the series in the last couple of weeks) and I liked it ... two more to go! It is written in third person perspective with the focus on Pete. It jumped back and forth in time, starting in the late 1950s in Cuba with Pete's grandfather in Cuba (the chapters are labeled). There is a lot of violence ... Pete doesn't get beat up as much as he has in the past, though. As a head's up, there is a lot of swearing.