Author: kateflora
When Maine detective Joe Burgess investigates a young girl’s savage murder, his dogged pursuit of justice leads him to a powerful human trafficking ring… An Edgar Award finalist “pours on the intensity in this criminal, legal, and moral maze” (Kirkus Reviews).
Thea Kozak, crisis counselor at the prestigious Simmons School, receives a disturbing phone call: A student has given birth prematurely and abandoned the baby, denying any possibility that she could be the mother. But the case gets really baffling when the teenager disappears… “I’ll follow Thea Kozak anywhere” (Laura Lippman).
Arriving to view what will hopefully be her dream home, Thea Kozak finds her real estate agent, Ginger Stevens, tied to a chair, surrounded by fiery space heaters. Just before the woman dies, she utters the indistinct words: Bobby. So long. Safe. Sorry. Then a stranger, claiming to be Ginger’s boyfriend, corners Thea, demanding a package that Ginger gave to her, a package Thea never received. … received. Determined to get justice for Ginger, Thea begins her own investigation. Ginger’s colleagues know little about her, her apartment has been professionally sanitized, Ginger Stevens is the name of a child who…
After a rookie officer is shot dead and two others are left in critical condition, detective Joe Burgess hunts for a killer with a vendetta against the city’s police. A twisting, sharply written procedural.
“Tight and credible” (Publishers Weekly): When her adopted sister is brutally murdered, Thea vows to bring her killer to justice. But there’s more to this case than meets the eye — and she’ll expose family secrets while searching for the truth… First in a series from an Edgar Award nominee.
When a boy raps on Detective Burgess’s car window summoning him to a burning commercial building now serving as a mosque, Burgess rushes through the intensifying flames to rescue a screaming woman and her baby locked in a closet.The young mother survives, but suffers traumatic muteness. Autopsy shows the infant was gravely ill, suggesting someone was trying to keep mother and child away from … hospitals that might have asked questions.Questioning suspicious, uncooperative refugees, members of a motorcycle gang, and shady businessmen, results in threats to Burgess’s family, newly grown by two adopted children.Burgess persists, certain that finding justice for…
“Real-world, intense, deeply flawed characters. Hard story to tell; even harder to read, but worth every minute. A real page turner.” ~Terry P., Verified Reviewer Portland, Maine, homicide detective Joe Burgess needs a vacation. But there’s a dead child in Knowlton Park. Rolling up on the scene with a canoe on the roof and fishing poles flapping, Burgess finds little Timmy Watts, viciously … little Timmy Watts, viciously stabbed, and carefully wrapped in a new blue blanket. Timmy’s parents are life-long crooks, his brothers deal drugs and his sister turns tricks. The only one who seems to care is Timmy’s…