Dustin Stevens

On the second story of a low-rent apartment complex, two women are found murdered, the scene awash with blood.One is a young nun from the local school, seeming to have had the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The other is a...

“Six years ago, you voted to send troops into Afghanistan. One of those soldiers was my son, who never made it back. Now, I'm here to ask you, was it worth it?”The gathering was supposed to have been a perfunctory media exercise on retiring Senator...

NOTHING MORE THAN A WALK IN THE PARK...It was supposed to have been a celebration. A night out among friends. A chance to celebrate the culmination of ten long years.For the last decade, Kyle Clady has served as a Navy SEAL. He endured sleepless...

Working in law enforcement imparts certain things in a man. The smell of gunpowder in the air. The sight of blood spatter at a crime scene.And the amount of trouble a woman is in by the pitch of her scream.Six weeks prior, on the heels of the most...

Police Detective Reed Mattox, just three months removed from the death of his partner, has turned invisibility into an art form.Switching to the K-9 unit, taking over the graveyard shift, moving to a farmhouse miles outside of Columbus, his every move...

“I know you and I have been through some things,” Reed whispered. “Some crazy, crazy stuff. But we have never - and will never - work a case as important as this one.”Eighteen months ago, Detective Reed Mattox didn’t just lose his partner, the woman...

Detective Roese looked up, lank hair hanging across her face. Blood staining her bare hands and forearms, she pressed down on the sucking chest wound, fighting to prevent another tally on the list of the recently deceased.“You can’t go out there. Best...

Six months have passed since the first murder investigation Detective Reed Mattox and his K-9 partner worked together, finding them in the throes of a steamy Midwestern summer.Working in The Bottoms, a notorious neighborhood on the west side of...

What do you do when somebody targets one of your own?Alone on the couch one night, Reed and his partner are both summoned to the hospital to find two of their colleagues have been viciously attacked, left for dead on the side of the road with very...

Less than a week before Christmas, Columbus Detective Reed Mattox and his K-9 partner receive a call from dispatch.The body of a young woman has been found floating in the Olentangy River, her teeth forcibly removed, her fingerprints obliterated, any...

Saying nothing in return, Reed listened as the phone cut out, the forest returning to relative silence around them.His hands still cupping the underside of his partner’s face, he tilted his own down to match it, feeling the damp warmth of her fur...

I don’t even know if the call is real. All I know is there is some girl on the line saying her name is Della Snow and that she is trapped inside a box right now.It started as a quiet night, a much needed reprieve for the overworked team of Detective...