This special Miami homicide unit breathes new life into old, cold, unsolved cases. The detectives are armed with a cop’s most powerful weapon: The luxury of enough time to investigate old unsolved murders without interruption.

These handpicked self starters don't hear the screams, see the blood, or experience the outrage most police officers feel at fresh murder scenes. Instead, they dissect dusty files and stacks of typewritten reports as cold and unemotional as a killer's heart. But their work is as dramatic as time travel. They apply modern Star Wars technology to murders often committed long before such forensic techniques were ever dreamed about.

The detectives start with grainy black and white crime scene photos, yellowed reports and the ghost of a killer long vanished, like footprints on sea-washed sand.  Crime scenes and witnesses’ addresses are gone, replaced by strip malls, expressways, and high rise developments.

What drives these investigators is that, unlike other crimes, first degree murder has no statute of limitations. No matter how old the case, the killer can still be brought to justice.

The players in many mysteries have aged twenty years or more. Frightened children have grown to adulthood still harboring buried fears. The femme fatale whose youth and beauty once triggered fatal passions is now middle-aged and frowzy. Killers aged by years and dark secrets are no less dangerous and more committed than ever to maintaining their freedom.

The cold case squad detectives are all survivors, flawed people with their own losses, ghosts and conflicts, sometimes with each other, but in the end they all work together, becoming a force for good that accomplishes what seems impossible.

I hope you like them.