The Awkward Squad

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"Suspended from her job for firing 'one bullet too many', Commissaire Anne Capestan expects the worst when she is summoned to H.Q. Instead, she is surprised to be told that she is to head up a new task force, devoted to reopening cold cases. Relieved as she is to have her career back, Capestan is not overjoyed by the prospect of her new role. She is even less pleased as one by one her team present themselves: a squad of renouned troublemakers, not one of whom can be sacked--only removed indefinitely from active police duties"--