Cold cases can't stay buried when the forensics are alive.

He's never let go of the Monroe Street case. The murder went cold years ago, leaving behind a file too thin to solve and memories that still press on the edges of his work.

Now a new killing shakes Richmond, and the forensics team brings Detective John Mays something he never expected: evidence carried back to the lab by bees from the city’s eastern groves. The insects have picked up microscopic traces of corpses that link the fresh homicide to the long-forgotten Monroe file.

As the investigation widens, postcards with cryptic spirals appear where no one should be able to leave them.
Forgotten neighborhoods tie into the pattern.
And Mays begins to realize someone has been watching the same case as closely as he has, waiting for the right moment to surface.

With his team divided and the city reluctant to dig up its past, Mays and his new partner, Rhonda Boone, have to decide how far they’ll push when the trail threatens to expose more than a killer.

Perfect for fans of Michael Connelly, Tana French, and Attica Locke, The Silence Beneath the Hives delivers a layered police procedural where new forensics crack open an old murder... and a city’s silence is the most dangerous evidence of all.

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