In this sequel to The Law of Unintended Consequences, Detective Marie Stransky is now the acting head of TPD’s homicide department, and her old partner, Torrance Stedman, has been reinstated as the designated detective in charge of cold cases.
There are three. The first is a body found under a cement slab in the backyard of a posh Armory Park home. The remains prove to be decades old. The ten-year anniversary of the death of a crazy old Yaqui woman calls attention to the second. The third, and most troubling for Stransky and Stedman, is the body of a 14-year old Black girl found by hikers just off a mountain road. She disappeared from her bedroom two years prior, but the autopsy determined that she died many months later, raising two disturbing questions: Where had she been in the months between her disappearance and her death? Had she been a little white girl, would there have been a greater effort to find her when she first disappeared?
Cold, Colder, Coldest dishes up a complex meal of murder spiced with domestic drama and dark humor. All of it adds up to another fast-paced police procedural filled with Jandrey’s typical slew of characters ranging from the scary to the quixotic.
There are three. The first is a body found under a cement slab in the backyard of a posh Armory Park home. The remains prove to be decades old. The ten-year anniversary of the death of a crazy old Yaqui woman calls attention to the second. The third, and most troubling for Stransky and Stedman, is the body of a 14-year old Black girl found by hikers just off a mountain road. She disappeared from her bedroom two years prior, but the autopsy determined that she died many months later, raising two disturbing questions: Where had she been in the months between her disappearance and her death? Had she been a little white girl, would there have been a greater effort to find her when she first disappeared?
Cold, Colder, Coldest dishes up a complex meal of murder spiced with domestic drama and dark humor. All of it adds up to another fast-paced police procedural filled with Jandrey’s typical slew of characters ranging from the scary to the quixotic.