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Political intrigue, an undercover investigation and a very mutual attraction As the Kansas City Police Department's archenemy, reporter Gabriel Knight never expected to need its help. But the sexy journalist suspects the death of a politician's aide will shed light on the long-unsolved murder of his fiancée. He demands to team up with tough, beautiful detective Olivia Watson. Sharing a mutual distrust—and a disturbingly mutual attraction—Gabe and Olivia discover that someone's working hard to keep old secrets buried and stop their investigation dead. But as they come closer to the truth they edge closer to each other. Until now, neither has had room in their lives—or hearts—for a relationship. Yet all that could change…if Gabe can prevent them from becoming tomorrow's headline.
Kansas City Cover-Up (The Precinct: Cold Case), by Julie Miller - Amazon Sales Rank: #390741 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.57" h x .58" w x 4.21" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 224 pages
Kansas City Cover-Up (The Precinct: Cold Case), by Julie Miller Review "A fast-paced, action-packed novel that sizzles from page one."-FreshFiction.com
About the Author USA TODAY bestselling author Julie Miller writes breathtaking romantic suspense. She has sold millions of copies of her books worldwide, and has earned a National Readers Choice Award, two Daphne du Maurier prizes and an RT BookReviews Career Achievement Award. She has also been a finalist for the prestigious RITA Award. For a complete list of her books, monthly newsletter and more, go to www.juliemiller.org
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. "How is this a cold case?" Detective Olivia Watson squatted down beside the body with the bashed-in head lying on the plush office carpet.The pool of blood looked fresh enough. The alleged murder weapon, a civic volunteerism trophy from the dead man's own desk, had already been bagged and packed away by the CSI trading notes with the medical examiner nearby. A uniformed officer and two building security guards were holding back a bevy of shocked and grieving office staff from the Kober & Associates PR firm, as well as curious onlookers from other businesses in the building beyond the yellow crime scene tape that blocked off the victim's outer office door. The two Kansas City PD detectives on the far side of the room interviewing the distraught secretary who'd discovered her boss's body after her half-day spa appointment seemed to have the crime scene well under control. So why call in representatives from the Fourth Precinct's Cold Case Squad?Olivia rested her forearms on the thighs of her dark wash jeans and studied the sixtyish man's still features again. The glass-and-steel high-rise in downtown Kansas City was almost as new as the murder itself. She was used to working cases with pictures out of dusty boxes and autopsy reports that raised a lot of unanswered questions. She'd worked with skeletal remains and mummified corpses and alleged victims whose bodies had never been found at all. Most people assumed the Cold Case Squad was an easier gig than working a fresh investigation. She liked to think of it as a smarter assignment, requiring more insight and diligence than other divisions at KCPD.Olivia was a third generation cop, like two of her three brothers. And the third one worked in the medical examiner's office. After two years in a uniform, five years in vice and the past year working cold cases, she'd learned that killers who'd eluded capture and thought they'd gotten away with murder often proved to be more devious and more dangerous than any other criminal out there. It was her job to track down those killers and finally get justice for those forgotten victims whose memory often died with their closest family and friends.So why was she here to assist two perfectly capable detectives when there was a stack of her own investigations back at HQ to sort through?"There must be a connection to one of our dead file cases. But if there is, I don't see it yet." She glanced up at her new partner, Jim Parker—back from the dead himself after a particularly harrowing undercover assignment for the Missouri Bureau of Investigation. "Do you?"Jim's green eyes surveyed the room the way she had. "I recognize Ron Kober from the newspapers. Besides owning a Top 50 company here in KC, he helped get Adrian McCoy elected to the State Senate a few years back. Looks like he was doing pretty well on his own, without the senator."Olivia arched a dark eyebrow. "Until today."She liked Jim well enough, respected his reputation as a cop, appreciated that he got her sarcastic sense of humor. But after that humiliating debacle with her last partner, learning to trust him was hard. Thankfully, Jim was a newlywed, completely crazy about his wife, Natalie, and showed nothing but a friendly professional interest in his relationship with Olivia. Still, she found herself thinking about her words before she spoke to him, guarding her thoughts and feelings, which was no mean task for a woman with her volatile Irish roots."A man with this kind of money probably has plenty of enemies," Jim suggested.An angle which she was sure the lead detectives were already exploring. Still didn't explain why she and Jim were here. She looked back down at the body, willing the corpse to speak and share his secrets. But she wasn't psychic and dead men didn't talk. However…Her eyes went past Kober's body to a scrap of torn paper underneath the desk. She snapped a picture with her cell phone before reaching over the dead body to pick it up with the sterile gloves she wore.Jim crouched down beside her. "What did you find?"Olivia turned the tiny square over between her thumb and index finger. "Four numbers. I don't know. It may just be a piece of trash.""Looks like a torn-up piece of stationery." Jim picked up the wastebasket beside the desk and set it between them to sort through its contents.But there were no other little hand-torn shreds like this one. "Could be the last digits of a phone number."Jim replaced the wastebasket and stood. "Or part of an address or social security number.""Or a locker number or part of a combination lock." Olivia straightened beside him, spotting a pad of dovegray paper on the desk that matched the piece in her hand. She picked it up and angled it in the light to see if she could read any indentations in the surface. But there were too many marks from previous notes to make out anything specific. "Maybe it's just a testament to their housekeeping service not doing its job, and isn't related to the crime at all."Just in case, though, she jotted the 3620 in her notebook before handing the scrap of paper and Kober's scratch pad over to the CSI.She tucked her own notepad into the pocket of her short leather jacket and peeled off her gloves, following Jim to the door. "So if this isn't our case, why are we here?"Jim nodded to the detectives hovering over the weeping woman across the room. "Hendricks and Kincaid are taking lead on Kober's murder here. Sawyer Kincaid called us in as a courtesy."Frowning, Olivia stuffed the gloves into the back pocket of her jeans. "And he didn't say why?""He just said it was a directive from higher up." He touched her shoulder to indicate he was taking a detour. "Looks like they're wrapping up that interview. I'll go ask if they can make sense of any of this yet."While her golden-haired partner crossed the room, Olivia indicated she'd head on downstairs and meet him at the car.She shouldn't have acknowledged the visceral impact of the short black hair and chiseled cheekbones of the man waiting just outside the office door as she passed him. Admitting any kind of gut-kick attraction to a man was, at least, an inconvenience, and, at most, a huge mistake. Her relationship with Marcus had taught her that.But the man's piercing blue gaze locked on and followed her through the doorway. The skin at the nape beneath her short hair tingled with awareness at his interest. Only, she wasn't sure if it was sensual nerves fluttering to attention, or an alarm going off. Either way, she wasn't about to flutter for any man, and she wasn't going to ignore those survival instincts that warned her of danger.Olivia stopped in the middle of the assistant's office and turned to face Mr. Tall Dark and Staring. "May I help you?"He pulled back the front of his tan corduroy sport coat and tucked his hands into the pockets of his jeans, assuming a casual stance she wouldn't match. "I can tell you why you're here, Detective Watson."Her chin jerked up ever so slightly at the stranger calling her by name. Un-uh. That wasn't an advantage she'd allow. Her hand instinctively came to rest over the Glock holstered to her belt. "Do I know you, Mister…?""Not really." The man straightened from the wall where he'd been leaning, and she could see he stood a good five or six inches over her five-foot-seven-inch height. "Ron Kober is the man my fiancée Danielle Reese was getting inside information from for a story she was writing when she was murdered six years ago.""Danielle Reese?" Why did that name sound familiar? Didn't matter. This guy was still a couple steps ahead of her in the conversation, and she didn't like it. "You didn't answer my question. Who are you?""Gabriel Knight."Was that supposed to mean something to her? That deep, succinct announcement made it sound as though he thought he was somebody important. But she'd have remembered a face like that. Not exactly handsome with all those sharp, unsmiling angles, but definitely interesting.Olivia blinked, silently reprimanding herself for even noticing such irrelevance. It was more important to note that she saw no sign that he was wearing a gun, and since he hadn't flashed a badge to identify himself, he couldn't be a cop. Gabriel Knight must be a curiosity seeker who'd probably lied to the uniformed guard about having some kind of information on the case so he could get close enough to see the dead body."Sir, did one of the detectives ask you to come past the crime scene tape for questioning?" He didn't answer. Proof enough for her that Gabriel Knight was trespassing on the crime scene. She thumbed over her shoulder to the hallway. "Then you can't be in here.""I've got press credentials." He tugged at the cord hanging around his neck and pulled a plastic card from his shirt pocket. "I'm covering the murder for the Journal!''A reporter? "Yeah, well my badge outranks your little piece of plastic. If you'll wait out front with the other reporters, the press liaison will be downstairs to give a briefing in a few minutes." She took him by the arm and turned to escort him into the hallway, but the man didn't budge."You need to talk to me." His voice was low and articulate, and, without being a breathy whisper, was for her ears alone. "I have information on this case. That's why the officer out front let me through.""Then you should talk to Detective Kincaid or Detective Hendricks." She released him to point out the big man with the dark hair and the black man with the diamond stud in his left earlobe in the other room. "I can introduce you when they're through with their witness."But Gabriel Knight grabbed her elbow and pulled her back beside him. "You may not read the paper, but I know who you are, Detective Watson. You and your partner are part of the cold case team, working older, unsolved crimes. Like the murder of Dani Reese. She was an investigative reporter, a colleague of mine. The woman I loved. She was found dead at an abandoned warehouse down on the river docks six years ago. Shot through the head like some common criminal. I'm the one who called Chief Taylor and suggested he send a team from your department here this afternoon."Olivia jerked her arm from his grasp."You called the Fourth Precinct chief?" Who'd filtered the request down through Sawyer Kincaid and on to Jim and her. She hated anyone who felt they were entitled enough to break the rules of standard police procedure whenever it suited them. She could do the low, threatening voice, too. "You know, we have real work to do, Mr. Knight. KCPD is not at your beck and call to dig up sidebars for whatever story you're working on.""Trust me, Detective, there is nothing more real to me than finding Dani's killer. If your people won't do it, I will."Her people? Cops? Like her friends and father and grandfather and brothers? The same men and women who'd solved her own mother's brutal slaying two decades earlier? This guy was bashing them?And then something else he said registered, cooling the defensive anger that had flashed through her veins. The woman I loved.She empathized with the kind of senseless violence, anger and grief Gabriel Knight had suffered more than he knew. It only took one deep breath, one thought of her mother's smiling face, to remember her sensitivity training. "Every victim believes the death of his or her loved one is our most important case. I'm sorry for your loss. But if the department hasn't made enough progress on Ms. Reese's death to suit you, it's only because there haven't been any substantial leads. Not because we've given up.""This is a lead. There has to be a connection to Kober.Find it.""I promise you, if we get new information on your fiancée's death, we'll look into it.""Coming from you, that's not terribly reassuring."Bristling at the dig that felt inexplicably personal, coming from a man she'd never met, Olivia gestured toward the yellow tape. She bit down on the urge to demand an explanation and invited him to walk beside her. "We never give up on a case. Ever. But some take longer to solve than others. It's a matter of prioritization. We review cases every day and try to focus our time, money and manpower where it can do the most good.""You're preaching departmental protocol, Detective Watson. And that's not a good enough answer." He stopped at the outer door, dipping his head slightly as he faced her one more time. "You find out who killed Kober, and I guarantee you'll find a lead on Dani's murderer. It may even be the same man who committed both crimes."With that warning, he ducked beneath the tape and stalked away. Olivia shook her head at the uniformed officer's questioning look about whether or not he needed to stop Knight before he pushed his way through the gathering of onlookers and got on the elevator.She was still processing the oddly charged and cryptic encounter when she felt a tap at her elbow. She nodded to Jim and he lifted the crime scene tape for her to exit in front of him. "You know who you were talking to, don't you?""Yeah. He said his name was Gabriel Knight. He's a reporter.""Not just any reporter." They stepped onto the elevator and Jim pushed the button for the ground floor. "Gabe Knight writes the Crime Beat column for the Kansas City Journal.''''Her instincts about men must still be out of whack after dumping Marcus. Otherwise, she'd have pieced together the name with the clues he'd dropped."He's the guy who wrote all those editorials about KCPD not being able to catch the Rose Red Rapist?" And when the task force did finally catch the creep and put him on trial, there hadn't been one word of praise or apology, merely a recitation of facts and something like, "About damn time. " Olivia groaned at her ineptitude as she walked out with Jim. Somehow she felt as if she'd betrayed her brethren cops by even having a conversation with the department's most outspoken critic. "And I was nice to him. Well, I was civil. He thinks Kober's murder is related to the unsolved death of his fiancée a few years back. Danielle Reese? He's the one who got us invited to the crime scene."They circled the gathering of television cameras and reporters on their way to her SUV. She felt Knight's blue eyes following her from the crowd awaiting the press conference as they crossed the street, but studiously ignored the urge to meet his watchful gaze."He probably approached you because he thought you'd be softhearted and sympathetic to his cause." She glared at Jim over the hood of the car before they both climbed in. "Clearly, he doesn't know you very well."
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A Cold Case Tie in to a New Murder? By Bunnyhop I love visiting the KCPD anytime with Julie Miller! Her books in this precinct are so good! This time we get to see the cold case dept. It's the first book in the series and I can't wait to read the next one! We have seen Gabe in several of her previous books. He's an investigative reporter and has been hard on the KCPD with less than flattering articles in the newspaper. In this book, however, we get to read about his backstory and it's a good one! His fiancé was killed 6 years ago and he feels the KCPD didn't do enough to catch the killer - he was never found. Enter Olivia, who is a 3rd generation cop and a recent murder ties into Gabe's fiancé's murder so they begin to work together to see if they can find out who killed both people. Gabe begins seeing the police dept. in a new light and Olivia sees Gabe in a new light also. The story is a good one and the action keeps you turning the pages! Some previous characters from Julie's books pop up and that's always fun but it is a stand alone book if you haven't read her other books. I really enjoyed this book, especially the character development and the action!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Loved it! By Books And Spoons Blog Amazing chemistry between the characters, thrilling mystery to be solved, and detective in need to get her trust to fellow teammates, as well as men in general, back in place.Gabe and Olivia had a believable connection, attraction that grew fast, but was deep and true. The understanding and respect they had for each other, the smooth team work they did together, moving and thinking as a solid unit was a joy to read, and experience. They are hot together, they heat up the sheets, and hospital offices, conference rooms or a car... Yes, the heat level was steaming, but authentic and credible, as well as swoon worthy beautiful.The mystery kept me guessing, and clued into my Kindle. The hunt for a killer in six year old cold case suddenly heats up, the danger is palpable, and lives are in peril. There are intense scenes of the hunt for the clues, as well as running for their lives.The ending is satisfying and complete, yet some of the questions still need answers, and as part of a long running series, even though easily to be read as a stand alone novel, those questions are in my mind, and I can't wait for the next installment in the series, coming out in August.Very well written murder mystery, with a beautifully flowing story that captivated me and engaged my mind, and made me connect with the characters~ Five Spoons!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Nice chemistry By Sparkymom Although I haven't read any of the other books in this cold case series, I had no trouble following this story. Olivia is a detective on the cold case squad. She comes from a long family tradition of law enforcement and had recently transferred into the cold case squad after as messy breakup with her former partner. Gabe is a highly opinionated reporter who has made it his business to publicly bash the police after Olivia's father failed to solve the murder of the woman he was engaged to years before. When a new murder links back to the cold murder case, Olivia and her partner are called in, and Gabe does everything he can to insinuate himself into the investigation.Danger follows Olivia and Gabe every step of the way. Someone else is also following Olivia and spying on her. She suspects her former partner but keeps her suspicions to herself. As the Gabe and Olivia get closer to finding the killer, they found themselves growing closer to each other. Gabe's opinion of the police force begins to change as does their opinion of him. The unlikely pairing has police and reporter working side by side to finally solve the cold case.I enjoyed the story and the characters. The book had plenty of action and nice chemistry. I received a copy for review from Net Galley.
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