A Cold, Hard Case

Justice doesn't have an expiration date.

Statistics say half of all killers get away. They blend into the suburbs, they grow old, and they forget. But the families of the victims never do.

When Detective Luca receives a cryptic call about a 25-year-old murder, he is pulled into the darkest corner of the city's history: the brutal, unsolved murder of a teenage girl. For two decades, a devastated mother has waited for answers, and a younger brother has lived with the ghosts of that night.

Now, as Luca prepares for the challenges of fatherhood himself, the case becomes deeply personal. He isn't just hunting a shadow; he's fighting to give a shattered family the peace they've been denied for a generation.

But the trail is a minefield. Between a botched original investigation and a carousel of tight-lipped suspects, someone wants the past to stay buried. And they are willing to kill again to make sure Luca doesn't dig too deep.

Can Luca solve the crime that defined a family's nightmare, or will he become the next victim of a secret twenty-five years in the making?

** You can enter the Luca Mystery Series with any book.