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Cold Steele
Paperback
Series: The Jasmine Steele Mystery, Book 4
ISBN13: 9780999043370
Publisher: Little Crown Media, LLC
Published: Oct 9 2024
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A SERIAL KILLER IS SAYING IT WITH FLOWERS...
In the fourth installment of Kimberly Amato's chilling hard-boiled mystery series, badass detective Jasmine Steele is back - and shockingly, to herself most of all - she's as happy as she's ever been.
She and her brilliant psychologist partner Frankie are planning a wedding that's been years in the making, and she's settled into a new chapter of life with her nephew-turned-adopted son, Chase. But the good life turns out to be more fleeting than the detective's caffeine withdrawals.
Jasmine, or Jazz, to her friends, gets a rude awakening when a 3-year-old cold case comes back hot. New York City's Carnation Killer, a serial rapist and murderer, leaves his fifth calling card on a woman named Emilia Smith. The calling card? A heart-shaped carving into the woman's chest and a single white carnation.
On the creep spectrum, Jazz puts this killer somewhere between Jack the Ripper and the Zodiac Killer. And her veteran right-hand man is on medical leave.
She's joined instead by temporary partner Detective Sydney Locke, a welcome new character. Sydney's pretty green but has a fiery determination and talent for the beat that Jazz recognizes within minutes. Soon enough, they've got a mentor/protégé thing going - which certainly comes in handy at their often patriarchal workplace.
And it turns out Jazz and Syd will need that and more when the military gets involved with the investigation- because the victim is none other than the daughter of a high-ranking official, and the brass knows more than they're saying.
What the team do know is that Emilia's last night alive was spent at a college bar that sparks Jasmine' least happy memory -the very same establishment that served as a backdrop to her own early adult years, a past defiled and traumatized by a dangerous man. Just as Jazz is finally ready to be happy, her bone-chilling trauma comes rushing back. And the Carnation Killer is still out there.
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