Cold Case Squad

Аннотация

&quote;Like all things good and bad in the world, it began with a woman...&quote; And so begins the first chapter of Edna Buchanan's Cold Case Squad, a new suspense novel that features a special homicide unit that breathes new life into old cases. A man and a woman are shot dead at a strip club in Miami Beach. A few hours later, an explosion in a garage rocks a child's birthday party and burns a father of three to death. The murders go unsolved and the fire is chalked up to an accident. But was it an accident? Twelve years later, a blonde walks in to the Miami Police Department's Cold Case Squad -- which Buchanan fans will remember from The Ice Maiden -- and complains that she's been seeing her husband everywhere she goes. Trouble is, he's been dead for twelve years. In Buchanan's characteristic voice, &quote;Some guys just don't know when to let go.&quote; As the Cold Case Squad unearths the details of the strip club deaths and the dead or missing father -- as well as the unsolved killings of a series of little old ladies -- readers get to know the three cops and their boss: veteran homicide detective Sergeant Craig Burch, whose marriage has turned into a case he can't solve; Detective Sam Stone, for whom the past will always be a mystery; Detective Pete Nazario, airlifted out of Cuba during &quote;Operation Pedro Pan&quote; in the 1960s; and Lieutenant K. C. Riley, for whom one case will never grow cold. Edna Buchanan has been thrilling readers since her Pulitzer Prize-winning stint as a crime reporter for The Miami Herald. The Chicago Tribune once raved that &quote;few writers can touch Buchanan,&quote; to which The Washington Post Book World seemed to respond, &quote;I doubt if anyone else is doing it better.&quote; In Cold Case Squad, Edna Buchanan, the woman the Los Angeles Daily News calls &quote;the Queen of crime,&quote; delivers unlikely killers, near-perfect murders, and her most suspenseful novel yet.