Cold Case Squad
Chapter One
TWELVE YEARS LATER
Like all things good and bad in the world, it
began with a woman.
She was a blonde, with a complaint about her
ex-husband. She saw him everywhere she went.
Turn around and there he was. She knew he was
trying to send her a message, she said.
Problem was, the man was dead, gone from this
earth for twelve long years.
Some guys just don't know when to let go.
My name is Craig Burch, a sergeant on the Miami
Police Department's Cold Case Squad. My
assignment is relatively new. I worked homicide
for eighteen years, mostly on the midnight
shift. I fought like hell to land this job. Why
not? It's every big-city homicide cop's wet
dream. This squad is armed with a detective's
most powerful weapon: time. The luxury of enough
time to investigate old, unsolved cases without
interruption. I wanted that. I wanted the
change. I wanted to see the faces of murderers
who suddenly realize their pasts and I have
caught up with them. The job has other perks as
well. No daily dealing with fresh corpses or,
worse yet, corpses less than fresh. No more
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