The Cold Case Files. A Rhys Taylor Story, #16

THE COLD CASE FILES: A Taylor & Carter InvestigationRhys Taylor was starting to believe the quiet might kill him. Six months after a blood-soaked takedown in California wine country, life at his Lake Tahoe cabin feels almost.normal. Too normal. Then Annabelle Carter shows up with a grin, a proposition, and the kind of restless energy that only comes from a retired New Orleans detective who misses the hunt.
Together, they hang out a shingle-Taylor/Carter Investigations-to chase the cases everyone else abandoned: cold trails, missing people, and mysteries that never made it into the light. Their first job? A Cold War ghost story handed to them off the record by an old CIA contact: Emil Varga, a double agent presumed dead for decades.now linked to a string of modern assassinations. The deeper they dig, the uglier it gets-an erased operation called Black Panther, a shadow pipeline running through New Orleans, and a hidden power broker selling secrets like currency.
Then the warning arrives: a trashed hotel room, a playing card, and a phoenix stamped on the back. Now Taylor and Carter aren't just solving a case-they're fighting for their lives. With Kat on the keyboards, Digger on overwatch, and enemies who don't arrest you-they erase you-the investigation becomes a race from the bayous of Louisiana to an offshore fortress in the Florida Keys. Because some cold cases aren't dead.
They're waiting. And once you open the file.you're in it.