David Chase carries his old cases home with him. He remembers the victims he couldn’t save and the people who escaped accountability. Then those unfinished cases begin returning to him in a way he never expected.

In my mystery thriller, The Chase: Finished What You Started, men who escaped justice begin dying in carefully staged scenes. Each death sends a message, and each message draws Detective Chase deeper into his own past.

Someone remembers his cases. Someone knows where they still hurt.

Set against the rain-soaked streets of Florida, the story follows Chase and his partner as they investigate murders that grow increasingly personal. Following the evidence means reopening wounds Chase has spent years trying to live with.

At the heart of the book is an uncomfortable question: how do you pursue a killer when you understand the anger behind the killings?

That tension matters because Chase still believes in the work he does. He knows what justice should mean. But he also knows the families left waiting when the system fails them. As the investigation unfolds, those convictions become harder to hold together.

If you enjoy dark mysteries where a detective’s past matters as much as the evidence in front of him, I hope you’ll give The Chase a place on your reading list. I hope it keeps you guessing—and gives you something to think about after the final page.

Thank you for spending a little time in Chase’s world.

I’d love to hear your thoughts: Can you understand a character’s desire for revenge without agreeing with what they do?

—Kenneth Salisbury