Curtain Call

USA TODAY & Amazon 2-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is at his best in this mystifying crime series!

Detective John Stone is taking early retirement. He has informed the chief, Inspector John Newman; and his partner and wife, Carmen Dehan, is retiring with him. She is pregnant and both Stone and Dehan want a safe, secure environment for their future child. Their sights are set on New England, where Stone will write his memoirs.

So the last thing either of them expects is a curtain call from one of Stone's old flames. Yet that is exactly what happens when actress Jane Morley, wife of Dan Santos, known collectively as America's Sweethearts, shows up and asks Stone to investigate a very particular cold case - the brutal murder of her friend and personal assistant, Kate Hagan ten years earlier.

At the time Stone had refused to investigate because he had recently been personally involved with the actress. Now he can't refuse, but as the case unfolds and its dark shadows threaten to engulf his marriage and his future family, he will wish fervently that he could.

But he know beyond doubt that all he can do is see it through to the bitter, twisted end.