Book 3 of the Erika Foster series
Erika has been reassigned to another police station, and the rest of the team has been assigned to other teams. When Erika receives a tip on a narcotics case, she has a disused quarry searched for key evidence. Drugs are recovered, and the skeleton of a child is discovered. They are the bones of Jessica Collins, who went missing from the area twenty-six years ago.
Erika asks to be the lead detective on the case, which is denied by her immediate superior. Erika goes over his head, and gets her way, she also asks that Moss and Peterson, and one of the officers on her new team comes along to the investigation. While they investigate, they learn there was a halfway house near the house of the Collins’ family – and all the former convicts were paedophiles. One of the halfway house’s residents was cleared twenty-six years ago but he’s still on Erika’s radar.
The relationship between Erika and James Peterson, the Iris Elba lookalike, becomes more personal in this book. I for one was cheering them on! The twist at the end was not a massive shock, but it was really sad.
Read for the ShelfReflection Reading Challenge 2026
Prompt 36: A book with a workplace romance
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️