#1 New York Times Bestselling author Tami Hoag returns to the
bestselling series of her career with a Kovac and Liska case that will
delight fans and new listeners alike.
A murder from the past. A murder from the present. And a life that was
never meant to be....
As the dreary, bitter weather of late fall descends on Minneapolis,
Detective Nikki Liska is restless. After moving to the cold case squad
in order to spend more time with her sons, she misses the rush of
pulling an all-nighter, the sense of urgency of hunting a murderer on
the loose. Most of all she misses her old partner, Sam Kovac. Sam is
having an even harder time adjusting to Nikki's absence, saddled with a
green new partner younger than pieces of Sam's wardrobe. Sam is
distracted from his troubles by an especially brutal double homicide: a
middle-aged husband and wife bludgeoned and hacked to death in their
home with a ceremonial Japanese samurai sword. Nikki's case, the
unsolved murder of a family man, community leader, and decorated sex
crimes detective for the Minneapolis PD, is less of a distraction:
twenty years later, there is little hope for finding the killer who got
away.
On the other end of the spectrum, Minneapolis resident Evi Burke has a
life she only dreamed of as a kid in and out of foster homes: a
beautiful home, a family, people who love her, a fulfilling job. Little
does she know that a danger from her past is stalking her perfect
present. A danger powerful enough to pull in both Kovac and Liska and
destroy the perfect life she was never meant to have.
