Where the Road Turns

A dead woman on a rain-slicked road outside Olympia was written off as a random hit-and-run twelve years ago—but a deathbed confession says otherwise. Detective Pete Mikkelsen, freshly assigned to Washington State's cold case unit, reopens the file and discovers it was barely investigated at all. Alongside his new partner Rita Bergstrom, Pete follows a trail of falsified invoices, buried evidence, and deliberate misdirection that leads from a corrupt logging company to the very detective who let a killer walk free.