The Dead Don’t Lie Dead Cold

A missing woman. A bag of money. A detective who trusted her.Some lies you survive—others make you.Before Detective John Stone was a legend, he was just a cop with a bad habit of trusting the wrong people.Caroline Howard walked into Stone’s life with a story of blackmail, fear, and men willing to kill to keep their secrets. She was beautiful. She was desperate. And she was lying.A midnight exchange turns violent, a killer escapes into the dark, and Caroline disappears without a trace—leaving Stone holding a bag of money, a corpse, and more questions than answers.The deeper he digs, the more the city begins to bleed: powerful men, organized crime, and a woman who played them all. And somewhere in the middle of it stands Stone, forced to learn the hardest lesson of his career:The truth doesn’t care who it destroys.And the dead don’t lie.