First Book in the Detective Mike Mastro Mysteries
by Judi Ciance
Her name was Jeni Johnson, but only he knew that. He had plans for her—just like the other three. They each enjoyed their last night in a quest to move up the social ladder. He’d given them a taste, but that was all. Then they had to die. His plan was flawless, designed and thought out in every detail, down to the black rose—the living symbol of death in a relationship.
Detective Mike Mastro and his partner, Detective Sal Petruca, out of the Revere Police Department, were assigned to the case. There was no visible sign of violence, no blood and no identification. Two months earlier, a girl had been posed the same way and found on a beach in Hull, Massachusetts. Eight months before that, two girls, cut from the same mold, were found in two beach locations in Quincy.
With tensions mounting and everything working against them, Detectives Mastro and Petruca, knew they had to step up their investigation and nail the killer before he struck again.
About the Author
Born and raised in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, I attended Green Mountain Junior College in Poultney, Vermont, and Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester. After numerous writing-related topics of interest classes. I finally walked with a degree in 2004. Later working in banking, sales, I also became general manager in my family’s metal stamping business.
Judi Ciance
In 1992, my husband, Paul, was activated during Desert Storm. Following his service of five months at the Pentagon in Washington D.C. we moved to our house on the Cape. I went to work in the Superior Courthouse at the Barnstable County Court complex, then for the Barnstable Sheriff’s Office. During that time, I worked in the Drug Partnership Grant program, civil process, in records, wrote policies and procedures and retired as the Assistant Deputy Superintendent of Finance.
In 2006, we moved to Florida where the heat in the summer, beats the snow in the winter. I may have a Florida address now, but my love for Cape Cod and Boston will forever live in my writing.
