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Overview: Tired of riding a desk and fed up with big-city politics, homicide lieutenant Judith Anderson chucks it all and leaves Baltimore to take a job as Chief of Police of a small Florida city, just south of Jacksonville.
She soon finds that she hasn’t left politics behind—anything but. However as CoP, she does have the freedom to show up at any crime scene she chooses and keep close tabs on the cases that intrigue her.
Her detectives and officers quickly develop a code, based on an old Jacksonville 10 code for “on the scene.” When the first one who spots her whispers into their radio “C.o.P. 10-97,” they all know that their buttinsky new Chief is on the scene.
Some of her newer detectives welcome the help of a seasoned homicide cop; others, not so much.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
Lethal Assumptions (#1)
Judith Anderson’s no-nonsense attitude and confidence served her well in her climb to homicide lieutenant in the Baltimore County PD, but that confidence is shaken when she finds herself one step behind a serial killer—just eight days into her new job as Chief of Police in a small Florida city.
The first victim, a female college student, may be a case of wrong place, wrong time. But the bodies keep coming, with a mishmash of MOs, and the murders may be linked to various cases in nearby Jacksonville.
While Judith assumed the CoP job would be challenging, she’s finding it harder than she imagined to establish her authority without alienating and be more hands-on without micro-managing. Plus, evidence is stacking up that there’s a leak in her department.
Who can she trust? If she makes the wrong assumption, the wrong decision, it may be her last. In a race to save lives, she’ll draw on every talent and instinct that made her a star in Baltimore. But will it be enough this time?
Fatal Escape (#2)
The criminals aren’t giving Chief of Police Judith Anderson much time to acclimate to Florida, or even to finish unpacking!
Only two months on the job and barely recovered from a serial killer case, the newly minted C.o.P. is called out to a scene of what looks like a suicide—an abandoned car on a bridge and a young woman’s body pulled from the river. But why is there no ID on her or in the car? And who wiped the fingerprints off the car’s exterior?
With the help of “Sheriff Sam” from nearby Clover County, Judith’s search for answers leads to the discovery of a human trafficking ring operating in her city—and to the realization that she’s up against more than one ruthless foe, perhaps even someone on her own force.
Can Judith find a killer, weed out the corruption in her department, and stop the traffickers…before more lives are destroyed?
The Twelve Heists of Christmas (#3)
The shortest day of the year is anything but for C.o.P. Judith Anderson.
A series of daytime smash-and-grab robberies are threatening to derail the Christmas shopping season in the small Florida city where Judith Anderson is the new Chief of Police. Shoppers are afraid, merchants are frustrated, the mayor is furious, and Judith and her department are looking like fools.
But they have little to go on. The thief is quick and is completely covered from head to toe, wearing a dark hoodie and plastic Santa mask.
The situation takes a nasty turn when a shop owner shoots at the fleeing robber and hits a young teenager instead. Judith is determined to stop the mayhem before someone else is seriously hurt, or worse. But will she be able to unmask the thieving Santa before Christmas…and is she prepared for what she may find if she does?
Felony Murder (#4)
All is not as it seems in Starling, Florida…
A phone call from a desperate teen, awaiting trial for felony murder, spurs Chief of Police Judith Anderson to re-open the case of a drug deal gone wrong.
She has mixed emotions about the felony murder charge—which can be brought against anyone involved in a felony that results in someone’s death, and her investigation finds more questions than answers. How did two white gang members involved end up with sweet plea deals, while the Latino kid with no record is charged with felony murder?
Meanwhile, attempts on the life of Starling’s mayor and glimpses around town of her lover talking to various women divide Judith’s attention and stir up her old demons of distrust. As she tries to keep both the mayor and her love life alive while ferreting out what really happened the night that drug deal went sideways, she begins to wonder…
Are all these cases related—all strands of a sinister web, with much more at stake than one kid’s freedom or her own heart?
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