H.K Christie
She's on her last chance. When the bodies start piling up, she'll need to save more than her job.
Martina Monroe is a single bad day away from losing it all. Stuck catching insurance fraudsters and cheating spouses due to a DUI, the despondent PI yearns to return to more fulfilling gigs. So when a prospective client asks for her by name to identify an unknown infant in a family photo, she leaps at the opportunity and travels
...2) If She Ran
Three months. Three missing women. One PI determined to discover the truth.
Back from break, PI Martina Monroe clears the air with her boss at Drakos Security & Investigations and is ready to jump right into solving cold cases for the CoCo County Sheriff's Department.
Diving into the cold case files Martina stumbles upon a pattern of missing young women, all of whom were deemed runaways, and the files froze with minimal
...3) Why She Lied
A missing mother and child. A secret past revealed. Will Martina and Hirsch discover the truth before they meet their end?
In the thick of the current cold case investigation, PI Martina Monroe receives a hand-written letter from a desperate mother pleading for Martina and Hirsch to reopen the cold case of the woman's missing daughter and five-year-old grandson. Feeling a deep connection to the request, Martina knows that
...Five years ago, she tried to kill the man who abducted her sister. Now she's living next door to a psychopath hiding in plain sight.
Allison Smythe is barely clinging to sanity. After blaming and nearly killing an innocent man for her sister's unsolved kidnapping, she's ready to consider a fresh start. But just as she's settled in a new city, she's horrified to spot the villain who took her sibling residing peacefully on
...A tragic death. A massive cover-up. PI Martina Monroe must face her past in order to reveal the truth.
PI Martina Monroe has found her groove working cold cases alongside Detective Hirsch at the CoCo County Sheriff's Department. With a growing team of cold case detectives, Martina and Hirsch are on the heels of bringing justice for Julie DeSoto - a woman Martina failed to protect one year earlier. But when Martina receives
...A PI in a vicious tailspin. An innocent in danger. A case that could claim them both.
Private Investigator Martina Monroe has no room for grief. Nearly a year after she failed to prevent her husband's death, a battered woman depends on her for safety. But when she arrives too late and finds the female dead, the tormented detective's only solace is a deeper relationship with the bottle.
Struggling with sobriety and doing
...A string of puzzling murders. A skilled and dangerous killer. Will the Cold Case Squad discover the truth in time to save one of its own?
PI Martina and Detective Hirsch accept the new sheriff's request to reopen a ten-year-old serial killer case. Not that they could refuse. One victim was the sheriff's brother, a married father of two.
The case is strange. Someone has murdered three successful men within a six-month
...A missing woman. A chilling connection to a baby trafficking ring. Will the Cold Case Investigators stop the killers before another woman is taken?
Martina and Detective Hirsch, still reeling from their last high-profile case, agree to reopen the missing person case of Sadie Jarreau, a friend of one member of the Cold Case Squad. At first glance, Sadie's disappearance from the local marina looks like the typical unhappy marriage
...A ritualistic murder. Multiple suspects. Can the cold case detectives find the truth before the killers strike again?
Ten years earlier, two teenage girls were found murdered by what appeared to be a satanic sacrifice. The case had dominated the news headlines for months before the original investigators failed to arrest the perpetrators of the crime - despite multiple suspects. Without solid evidence to prosecute, and even
...10) How She Fell
Missing twin sisters. A chilling revelation. Will this be the case that breaks the Cold Case Squad?
Twenty years earlier, a set of female eighteen-year-old twins went missing in the Bay Area. There were no news reports or national coverage. The original investigators had barely touched the case, and like so many other cases of missing teens, were quickly labeled runaways, and the file sat on the shelf. Baffled by the lack
...