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The second book of The Crime Pattern Casebooks will be available on Amazon. Best to read the first book, The Magic Room: A Crime Pattern Casebook before you read this one... but you don't have to, of course. 💁‍♀️

This 5-book series is my attempt to use the power of story to show the world the importance of crime patterns and law enforcement analysts.

"The room is filling. Where there were two desks, there are now six-a property analyst, a violent-crime analyst, a mapmaker, a federal agent who finally has a permanent chair. The work has proven itself, and the proof is the team gathering around it. At the center, crime analyst Sophia Russo and FBI intelligence analyst Cassandra Cassidy do what they have always done: find the patterns no one else does.

And no two patterns are alike. An old money-moving network using small storefronts carries honest remittances and dirty money through the same channels, and there's no easy way to separate one from the other. A man whose petty thefts harden, one night at a time, into something worse. Gunfire a neighborhood hears that the records cannot count. Burglaries crossing jurisdiction after jurisdiction with no logic anyone can find. Each pattern demands something different-and each one tests what analysis can do.

The question is no longer whether analysts belong. It is how far their work can reach, and what it costs to keep looking-including at the cases no one else will touch. All the while, the lives behind the desks are changing, in ways that will remake them.

Set against the parishes and snowbound streets of Buffalo, The Curry Connection is a crime procedural about intelligence work, friendship, and the patterns that decide what a community is willing to face."