Scratching the Flint

It's a gritty realistic portrayal of the buddy cop duo where one's just getting in and frustrated and the other is on his way out and trying not to rock the boat before it happens with a nasty villain as their main united front and conflict. Not the typical cop book about Toronto po-po. I read this because I loved Tia Ja'nae "Flicking The Bic", which is the prequel to this & to her "Ghosts On The Block Never Sleep. In "Scratching The Flint" Smith's favorite detectives Alex Johnson a and Cecil Bolan (who appear in other works of the author) are on the hunt for Jean-Max Renaldo.