Little Dead Riding Hood — Blake Banner

An eighteen-year-old girl sets out one November night to walk five blocks down Gleason Avenue to her boyfriend's house. He calls her and she tells him she's on her way. It's a walk that should take ten minutes, but she never arrives.

When she does turn up, it's five days later, washed up on the banks of the River Bronx, in Soundview Park, strangled to death.

The detective who investigates the murder, a friend of the family, finds no forensic evidence, nothing of interest in her phone records, no witnesses to the abduction or the murder. Nothing. The case goes cold.

Until her brother, Samuel, comes forward with new evidence he has found. And then the cases is handed to Detectives Stone and Dehan of the 43rd Precinct. They start asking the difficult questions, like how did she get into the river in the first place, and then the case starts heating up again…