Spotlight: Blood on the Tracks

 Blood on the Tracks: Barbara Nickless

Tucker Rhodes has a past that he would like to keep hidden and an event that happened in Iraq that if brought to light in the present would destroy many lives. Rhodes is scarred. His face and body badly burned having those that see him call him the Burned Man. When investigating a murder of a young woman named Elise, it leads back to him, as she is his fiancé. The story opens when we hear her voice begging him to come home and saying she will marry him no matter what. Scarred both physically and emotionally Rhodes finds himself in a darker place when Elise is found dead. Standing over her body does not help, as he is the one to find her. Special Agent Sydney Rose Parnell, is brought in by the Denver Major Crimes Unit with her dog Clyde to help wit the investigation. Although attached to the Railroad and not really a crime investigator she takes chances, uses her intuitive skills to unravel a murder that might lead back to a unit in the army in Iraq. With the two detectives on the case Cohen and Parnell, both having different viewpoints regarding Rhodes and his guilt, the police for some reason want to move ahead with Rhodes and just might fail to find the real killer but there is much more as Sydney recalls what happened, the two men whose bodies she processed when working for a mortuary unit and a bomb that was ignited that took many lives. Just what happened there and why are so many willing hide the truth? What will happen if this comes out at trial?