Redemption (Giammatteo)

Gino Cataldi is a man hanging on by a thread. Cancer took his wife, and drugs put his son in rehab. The only thing he has left is his badge.  When a teenage girl is kidnapped it brings back nightmares from the worst case he ever worked-the one that tore his life to shreds and forced him out of Philadelphia. Gino doesn't want this case but he knows he has to take it. Not just to save the girl, but to earn redemption for what went wrong in Philly.

Gino Cataldi is a man hanging on by a thread. Cancer took his wife, and drugs put his son in rehab. All he has left is his badge. When a teenage girl is kidnapped it brings back nightmares from the worst case he ever worked-the one that tore his life to shreds and forced him out of Philadelphia. Gino doesn't want this case but he knows he has to take it. Not just to save the girl, but to earn redemption for what went wrong in Philly.

Lisa Benz was brilliant, street smart, and full of potential. She could have had any job she wanted, but she decided to join the police force. She didn't join to carry on a family tradition, or to fulfill a lifelong dream. She didn't join to impress anyone or make her mark on society. She joined for one reason only-a promise she made to a young girl.

After being married for 25 years, I realized that I no longer wanted to be married. What should I do? The simple answer was file for divorce, but life was seldom that simple, and mine certainly wasn't. There was the house to consider, two cars, the jewelry-and the safe deposit box. I thought about the options and finally decided that murder was the best solution-not the easiest, but the best-and I knew just how to do it.