The Weight of a Cold Case on a Detective's Soul.
When the body of Sandy Rawlings is discovered in a Marietta park, Detective Walker Michaels is thrust back into the nightmare he thought he'd left behind. The city’s most notorious serial killer, the Moralist, vanished four years ago, but the gruesome staging of Sandy’s murder suggests a copycat—or something even more sinister.
As Michaels races to unravel the truth, the stakes rise: another innocent life may hang in the balance, and the city’s wounds threaten to split wide open. In a time when trust in institutions is fraying, The 12th Cleansing pulses with urgency and dread.
The 12th Cleansing: A Cold Case Reignited by a Serial Killer's Return
Published on December 23, 2025 05:10