Dead Files

Gabriel Kinnett is a young rookie officer who is thrown into a mystery that he is unqualified to solve. As a junior member of a midnight-shift full of misfit police offices, he is given mixed messages as to what is right and wrong in his profession. Torn between the desire to support his fellow officers and the requirement to testify against them, he finds himself in the middle of a career ending dilemma.


As things get worse, he finds himself assigned to the Cold Case Unit, which is actually a storage bunker where unsolved cases are stored. When a series of seemingly unsolvable murders capture his interest, he begins looking for a connection. With the help of an experienced detective and a young, female prosecutor, he wrestles with the frustration of the constraints in the criminal justice system.


As his life spirals out of control, Gabe makes some decisions that put him outside the acceptable practices of his profession and puts his life and career at risk. As these disastrous mistakes catch up with him, he finds redemption in the values of the worst possible role model.


DEAD FILES will make you laugh, cry, cringe and cheer. If you are a thrill seeker and like stories with unpredictable twists and turns, DEAD FILES is a must read for you. There is something unique in every book that Mike Smitley writes, and although his works are fiction, they are based on reality. For a look deep inside the guarded culture of a tight-knit shift of police officers and the dark recesses of the deranged mind, take a ride on this mystery. You'll either wish that you'd been a homicide investigator or thank God that you weren't.