Tasked with solving a 20-year-old homicide in one of the South's largest metropolitan cities, Radell Hunter had to draw from her criminal justice background to do it. But being familiar with law enforcement investigation techniques wasn't going to guarantee this petite blonde case success, since the killer she sought might well work in the police field himself.

But she wasn't worried; she had one thing most of her male contemporaries didn't have: a mother's instincts. And since this crime involved a brutal and violent act against a young woman, Radell's own daughter's face kept flashing in her mind when she was tempted to give up.

Taking her life in her own hands, with no male backup to assist, Radell coupled classroom teaching with on-the-job experience to locate an unknown killer who had eluded police for two decades. Her efforts, culminating in a life-or-death struggle that would leave her name synonymous with the term "cold case investigator"--and her adversary an incarcerated man--would also propel her to the top of the New York Times bestseller list for the "tell all" she penned about it.