Cold Impact: A Michael Flint Novel

by Diane Capri

382 pages, Paperback

Published June 26, 2026

About the author

Bestselling author Diane Capri is a recovering lawyer. She’s a snowbird who divides her time between Florida and Michigan. An active member of Mystery Writers of America, Author’s Guild, International Thriller Writers, and Sisters in Crime, she loves to hear from readers and is hard at work on her next novel.

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#1 Amazon Bestselling Author Diane Capri’s work is what the #1 worldwide publishing phenomenon Lee Child calls “Full of thrills and tension, but smart and human, too.” Margaret Maron, Edgar, Anthony, Agatha and Macavity Award-winning MWA Past President, says: “Expertise shines on every page.” And Library Journal raves: “….offers tense legal drama with courtroom overtones, twisty plots, and loads of atmosphere. Recommended.”

Diane’s new Jess Kimball series kicked off with Fatal Distraction, opening as the #3 Bestselling Legal Thriller, behind John Grisham. Diane’s new Hunt for Jack Reacher series began with Don’t Know Jack, which garnered #1 Bestseller spots on Mystery, Hard-boiled Mystery, Police Procedural, Women Sleuths, and Legal Thriller lists both in the U.S. and U.K. Don’t Know Jack was followed by two bestselling short stories in the Hunt for Jack Reacher series, Jack in a Box and Jack and Kill. Diane’s Judge Wilhelmina Carson mysteries were praised by Romantic Times and garnered the coveted “Top Pick.” Diane’s savvy, spunky character, attorney Jennifer Lane, stars in her own romantic suspense series, which kicks off with Annabelle’s Attack.

Diane is the past Executive Vice President of International Thriller Writers, past member of the Board of the Florida Chapter of Mystery Writers of America, and active in Sisters in Crime and other writing organizations. She comes to writing after a successful legal career and is married to her college sweetheart. She loves her nomadic snowbird existence preferring perpetual summer migrating from Florida to Michigan each year.

Diane says she writes mystery and suspense for the same reason she reads: to find out what happens, why people do what they do, and how to bring justice to an unjust world.Her books are translated in twenty territories. Diane loves to hear from readers. Contact her at: DianeCapri.com/Contact to receive notice of new releases, subscribe to Diane’s blog, or simply connect with her.

Reviews

[Debbie Feyerabend · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another action-packed Michael Flint adventure!

Michael Flint works as a PI with Katie Scarlett and Alonzo Drake at Scarlett Investigations. Scarlett received a mystery USB drive with a photo she’d been trying to source for two days. When she gave it up for the night to head home, she found an intruder in her secure parking garage. The intruder managed to escape with Scarlett’s SUV with her phone and bag in it using a flashbang. Scarlett was able to track her phone and SUV and disabled the vehicle a few miles from her office. She retrieved the SUV and went to Flint’s house to confer on what just took place.

Scarlett shows Flint what was on the USB drive: a video of a private jet exploding. The plane had 3 pilots as well as Craig and Nancy Keane aboard: all four declared dead. There was also an old photo of initials carved into a tree that Scarlett and Nora Weiss carved when they were at the foster child Lazy M ranch. More questions at this point than answers. While she and Flint were pondering the information they had and didn’t have, Scarlett received a call from the mystery person who had the USB drive and photo delivered to her. She wanted to meet in person at a place only Scarlett would know about. She asked for Scarlett’s help and indicated only three people were on the private jet that exploded in the video.

Flint suddenly went on high alert, noticing a slow-moving vehicle going down his street. He snuck out of his house and went up to the car and approached the man who was watching his house. He disarmed the man and went inside the house, finding out that Cody Patterson was a retired police officer looking for his missing twin brother.

Now Flint and Scarlett must find out if all these mysteries are tied together somehow or are separate from each other – one big coincidence. Not very likely in their line of work. Follow the path Scarlett, Flint their partner, Drake, and Patterson take to unwind these mysteries.

Unputdownable!

[Carla Bream · Rating 5 out of 5]

Once again, Capri writes another knockout of a book. We visit Michael Flint and his boss Katie Scarlett as they have to unravel a mystery connected to a USB showing a small plane being blown up midair. Who was actually on the plane? Who sent the USB to Scarlett? Who is trying to kill them, again and again? It seems to be connected back to when Scarlett was in a foster home and a certain friend she had at the time. Ride along as they travel across the country and overseas to figure out the shadowy conspiracy as the story just amps up higher and higher. A fantastic thrill ride.