Cold Case

by J.M. Hartwig

Detective Inspector Jaine Rhodes is fed up with her life. Dominated by the obnoxious attitude of her fifteen-year-old son and a procession of one-night-stands, she questions where her life went wrong. Trapped in an inwardly spiralling vortex of domestic dissatisfaction, Jaine retreats into her job with the Metropolitan Police’s Unsolved Crime and Cold Case Unit. She’s tasked to track down a serial rapist who’s left a string of broken women behind him, and he’s not finished. The investigation is challenging and demands everything Jaine has learned during her eighteen-year career in the Met.
Away from the job, Jaine is lonely. When she meets Lieutenant Commander Tom Grifford, her life changes in the blink of an eye. Tom is everything she’s ever wanted in a man, but they’re both committed to demanding careers. Life together will never be easy. When Jaine is the victim of a violent assault, she moves to Portsmouth and transfers from the Met’s UCCC Unit to the Hampshire Constabulary’s Cold Case Unit.
She thought she had left the serial rapist investigation behind, but Hampshire has cases in their files, too. Then Jaine uncovers another cold case that hits close to home. Discovering evidence linking the two investigations puts Jaine on a collision course with the Royal Navy and leads to a confrontation with a serial rapist pursuing one last victim.

428 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 17, 2020