Cold Case Squad

Its place in Craig Burch

Cold Case Squad is book 1 in the Craig Burch series. It is followed by Shadows. See the full Craig Burch reading order.

Edna Buchanan's second Miami series trades her longtime reporter protagonist for a detective: Craig Burch of the Miami PD's cold case squad, reopening unsolved homicides that the department's daily grind never let anyone finish. Across two books, Cold Case Squad (2004) and Shadows (2005), Buchanan applies the same Miami street-level authenticity that defined Britt Montero to a police-procedural cast working cases years or decades old. It's a shorter series than Britt Montero, but it let Buchanan write from inside…