The Dead Detective

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It starts with a sneaker washed ashore. The severed foot inside changed everything...</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>San Diego Homicide Detective Wyatt Lake has seen strange cases-but nothing like this. When a second foot appears nearby forensic experts trace the shoes' journey back to a sunken shipping container. Inside: twelve bodies shackled together at the bottom of the sea.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Then the Feds seize control of the investigation.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Frustrated at being pushed aside Wyatt transfers to the Cold Case Unit hoping to work the chain-gang homicides off the books. It is said that when man plans God laughs. When Wyatt is diagnosed with a fatal illness he opts to put his all into his caseload particularly his investigation into Chloe Landers-the sole survivor of a brutal attack twenty-five years ago that left her best friend dead and her legs amputated.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Chloe has no interest in reopening old wounds. But Wyatt suspects she's hiding something-maybe even a plan for revenge. As their bond deepens so do the lies between them. And when Chloe vanishes on a weekend conference Wyatt fears the worst.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What begins as a search for justice spirals into something darker-a race to stop a murder or commit one...</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Taut atmospheric and devastatingly human <em>The Dead Detective</em> is a psychological mystery about love guilt and how far we'll go to right the past.</strong></p><p></p>