Double Jeopardy

by Denise Moncrief

All Detective Maris Couvillian wants is some peace, but the murder of Ashley Desormeaux opens old wounds, physically, mentally, and emotionally. Eight years ago, her partner left the New Orleans Police Department and left her with the unsolved Scarlet Thread serial killings. After being dormant for years, it seems the serial killer has resurfaced with a new way to kill. Much to her dismay, she returns from leave of absence and is assigned the Desormeaux case and a new temporary partner, FBI Special Agent Trent Holt.
Trent doesn’t know which is going to be more difficult, working with Maris or solving the case. Her insistence that the older murders are related to the Desormeaux killing keeps the tension wound tight between them. It takes a lot of convincing before he agrees to investigate the Scarlet Thread cases. How will Trent break through the barriers Maris has erected to protect her heart from past hurts when it becomes apparent her relationship with her ex-partner is central to solving the murders?
As Maris and Trent dive deeper and deeper into the case, they dive deeper and deeper into each other’s painful history. Can they overcome feelings of anger and betrayal leftover from their past to trust each other enough to solve the case and maybe after it’s all over build a life together?

451 pages, Paperback

Published July 9, 2024

About the author

Suspense, She Writes

Where the road to happily ever after takes a suspenseful detour.

Denise has lived in Louisiana all her life, and yes, she has a drawl. She has a wonderful husband and two incredible children, who not only endure her moods but also encourage her to indulge her writing passion. Accounting is a skill she learned to earn a little money to support her writing habit. Besides writing paranormal suspense, she holds a part-time job in public accounting and enjoys traveling, reading, and scrapbooking.

She wrote her first story when she was a teen, seventeen handwritten pages on school-ruled paper and an obvious rip-off of the last romance novel she had read. She's been writing off and on ever since, and with twenty-two stories already published and fourteen still available for purchase, she plans to continue releasing new books for years to come. In 2015, her Haunted Hearts series sold over 19,000 copies, placing the series on Amazon's best-seller list of ghost thrillers for over a year.