Genre:
Mystery
Themes:
Against All Odds
Age Gap
Murder / Crime / Serial Killer
Mystery / Suspense
Opposites Attract
Police Procedural
Romance After 50
Stalker
Heat Level:
Medium (sex scenes are included and may use mildly graphic description)
Archetypes:
Accountant / CFO
Geographic Location:
United States: Mid-Atlantic
Setting:
Big City / Urban
Hospital / Medical / Treatment Facility
Investigation / Stakeout
Park / Zoo / Garden
Police Station / Precinct
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Lesbian
Femme
Trigger/Content Warning:
Use of the word "faggot" in notes of detectives from 1982 who first investigated the murder.
Cold Case Heat
By Mary P. Burns
Sydney Hansen hadn't seen the attraction coming when Gale Sterling was still "Detective" and Syd was focused on the threat to her life.
Forty years ago, Sydney Hansen’s best friend was murdered. His killer left her a menacing note. Now the man Syd suspected was behind the killing has died—and she receives another threat, attached to a photo of her thirteen-year-old great-niece. Terrified but angry, she turns to the NYPD and Detective Gale Sterling to reopen the case.
Gale has been handling cold cases for over a decade, burying herself in her work and caring for her elderly father, a former detective himself. But this case isn’t like the others. Maybe it’s Sydney Hansen—she finds her beauty captivating. Or maybe it’s the bullet she takes for Syd one night when their date turns into an impromptu stakeout.
Syd and Gayle just want to protect the innocent and bring a killer to justice, but as their feelings for each other grow the once cold case turns dangerously hot.