Fledgling by Octavia Butler
First person. Hero has an "ace" but not hardly up her sleeve. 300 pages but felt like a short story. They find the killers kind of easily and they're convicted by a rather quick trial. Liked the beginning but it developed a pedestrian feel as it went along. Started feeling embarrassed about reading it, etc. Oh well. Bad guys highly and stupidly 2D but is that so different from real life? Perhaps it could have been better if longer. Felt rushed towards a happy ending. Wanted Parable of the Sower but it wasn't on kindle so just grabbed what they happened to have at the independent bookstore when I really should have used amazon.