The Heart to Kill

A Dead Cold Mystery, Book 7

By: Blake Banner

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

The killing had all the hallmarks of an execution....

USA Today and Amazon two-million copy best-selling author Blake Banner is at his best in this mystifying crime series!

Dave Thorndike, an investigative reporter on the New York Telegraph, is in the habit of disappearing for weeks at a time. So when he vanishes in the winter of 2008, investigating the story of his life, nobody worries—until he shows up shot in the head with his own 9mm—no laptop and no story.

It wasn’t much to go on in 2008, but when Stone and Dehan pick it up 10 years later, the case is as cold as the icy winds blowing off the East River. Both his wife and his mistress had motive, but the killing has all the hallmarks of an execution.

Things get deep when Dehan realizes Thorndike’s investigation was into non other than Senator Carol Hennessy, head of the Hennessy Foundation and presidential candidate—a woman whose opponents tended to die young. But that’s not the only thing she notices. She also sees Shelly Pierce, the sexy new editor of the NY Telegraph, coming on to Stone. A fact to which Stone seems totally blind....

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I am going to hate waiting for another story.

This was an excellent story. Reading each book in order is definitely recommended although not necessary.

Another cold case solved

Good story line. Great imagination to create story with surprise in details of how it was doe to uncover old cases