Judas Kiss

Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson is used to cameras and hard questions. The murder of Corinne Wolff tests that. Corinne is pregnant when she is killed in her own home, and her toddler daughter is found playing beside the body, with a trail of small bloody footprints leading away. The crime is tailor-made for television, and the press coverage turns ugly fast.

Corinne seemed a model mother. Then investigators link her to an amateur porn website that features underage actresses as well as players who did not know they were being filmed. Once that connection surfaces, the attention on the case sharpens and grows more predatory.

A second threat arrives from Taylor's past. An old adversary uses secret footage from the site to implicate her in a murder. The accusation puts her career, her reputation and her relationship at risk, so she is working a homicide while defending herself against one.

This is a police procedural thriller with a media-circus backdrop. Both cases turn on evidence that may be real or may be manufactured, and the motives run to obsessive vengeance and betrayal. It is the third book in the Taylor Jackson series, following All the Pretty Girls and 14.