A cold case heats up, revealing a deadly conspiracy in a twisty thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg.

A catastrophic wildfire scorches the Santa Monica Mountains, exposing the charred remains of a woman who disappeared years ago. The investigation is assigned to Eve Ronin, the youngest homicide detective in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, a position that forces her to prove herself again and again. This time, though, she has much more to prove.

Bones don’t lie, and these have a horrific story to tell. Eve tirelessly digs into the past, unearthing dark secrets that reveal nothing about the case is as it seems. With almost no one she can trust, her relentless pursuit of justice for the forgotten dead could put Eve’s own life in peril.

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January 5, 2021
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Eve Ronin

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Los Angeles hides its secrets in plain sight, behind the walls of luxury homes, beneath wildfire-scorched hills, and inside the quiet corridors of power. At the center of that tangled landscape stands Eve Ronin, the youngest homicide detective in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, trying to carve out truth in a place built on illusion.

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What begins as a hard-won promotion after a viral arrest soon becomes a relentless test of integrity. Each investigation pulls her deeper into the city’s contradictions: fame and failure, loyalty and betrayal, justice and corruption. With every case, Eve faces the uneasy question of whether the system she serves is worth the price it demands.

The series blends the precision of a police procedural with the tension of a psychological thriller. Set against the vivid sprawl of Southern California, from sunlit canyons to gated estates, it captures the uneasy rhythm of a world where everyone performs, and where the truth, once uncovered, can destroy as easily as it can heal.

Gritty, fast-paced, and grounded in moral complexity, this crime fiction series doesn’t just trace the path of a detective. It exposes the fragile boundary between ambition and obsession. For readers drawn to authentic law enforcement detail, layered mysteries, and the pulse of Los Angeles itself, these stories deliver a sharp, unflinching look at what it means to fight for justice in a city built on secrets.

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