Cold Cases and Dark Secrets
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Publisher Description
Time Didn't Heal All Wounds, and the Scars were About to be Ripped Open
Stevenson
When I'd moved from Homicide to the Cold Case Unit my friends headed, I'd thought it would be a new start. The minute my marriage fell apart, I'd lost my purpose. Years passed, and I hadn't found myself until I'd helped my friends catch a serial killer, but I'd also found friends and family. As I'd searched for a case among dusty boxes, a decades' old murder and missing person case caught my attention. The autopsy report sent me to the ME's office and the man I'd avoided for months.
Doc
Making death my job didn't allow for normal friends, but the dead needed an advocate, and it was the only purpose I'd known. Being a medical examiner was all I'd had for decades, and I didn't know what to do outside my job. I had a group of friends, all worked in law enforcement and forensics, but one thing was missing. Short, adorable middle-aged men weren't getting swept off their feet. When my secret crush needed my help with a case, to the detriment of my sanity, I said yes. All I had to do was not be my weird self and blurt out everything in my head.
When a missing person case turns out to be more than it appears, can Stevenson keep Doc safe from a twenty-year-old threat?
(TW: May contain mentions of sexual, physical, and mental abuses. Passive Suicidal Ideation, self-harm, and mental illness. These are mainly off-page, but there may be detailed flashbacks and conversations of said acts. Yet if these are triggering for you, please feel free not to read the story. Your self-care and mental health are more important. Thank you.)
Customer Reviews
ENTERTAINING
J.M. Dabney takes us back into that dark world of cold cases, with “Cold Cases and Dark Secrets” Detective Carter Stevenson and Doc Morgan Warner will open up one of the most terrifying cases.
Detective Carter Stevenson, forty-three, has finally settled in with the “Cold Case Unit” and the unique personalities of the crew. He was married, now five years divorced. He was left with the feeling of low self esteem which made for a lonely situation. Now, he was never at home enough to even call it home. On a whim, he decides to randomly select a case to tackle, out of the many cold cases. The case stems back to nineteen ninety seven, and needless to say handled badly. Detectives didn’t investigate, evidence was untested, no documentation and Lab Supervisor Coleman neglected doing his job. He needed help on this one and the best one to help is Doc Warner.
Doctor Morgan Warner, fifty-six, is the Senior Medical Examiner, with an eidetic/photographic memory. He’s the only one that can get what’s needed out of his biased lab supervisor, Coleman. Doc is a “little” and has gotten along with Stevenson, but something about Doc sets Stevenson on edge.
Both Doc and Stevenson are struggling with relationship failures, age, and never finding the one person that they could call their own. Even though they want the same thing misunderstandings and not communicating could ruin a friendship.
Doc already has his hands full as the Feds have him reexamining hundreds of cases with guilty verdicts, that were mishandled by the coroner. As he squeezes in Stevenson’s cold case, they will be overwhelmed with the cold case of the gruesome death of a young women and kidnapped boy. It will lead to a Mother who already served time in prison and tried to investigate the situation on her own. Along with, three other women who were incarcerated for the disappearances of their sons. It will take Stevenson and Doc into the streets and help from Boss and the Outreach Program. It will lead them to the eerie world of cults. The Cold Case family will be coming together when danger and death threatens one of their own.
J.M. Dabney creates another twisted cold case with “Cold Cases and Dark Secrets”. This book is even more exciting than the first book “Cold Cases and Second Chances”. It still has the dark theme element, with the psychological feel and the complex investigation that goes into the cold cases. It’s action-packed with a race against time to hopefully save victims. There’s so much more to this exciting, intense and “on the edge of our seat” novel. The emotions run high as Doc and Stevenson try to find that chemistry that could bring them together.
“Cold Cases and Dark Secrets’ will bring out the needs of the Cold Case Family that society looks at as “not normal”. But they aren’t any different, as we all have different needs. The story projects how society has those that don’t matter in the world and shows the bias, injustice of law enforcement and the legal system.
Besides the cute Doc and Stevenson the Cold Case family is back: Robert and Remy; Vega and Cash; Graves and a newcomer Detective Marcel Douglas; and maybe SWAT Commander Dolan Sharp.
All I can say is, with the addition of Detective Douglas I can’t wait to see what J.M. Dabney has in store for him in book three “Cold Cases and Bitter Enemies”.