The Other Killer
(2026)(A book in the Nick Teffinger Thriller series)
A novel by Jim Michael Hansen and R J Jagger
Five years ago, Jori-Ray Rose was the kind of secret a powerful man would risk everything to keep.
She was Senator John Stone’s hidden obsession—young, stunning, and dangerously close to his family. Then, in a single, blood-soaked night, she became something else entirely.
A killer.
Stone’s daughter was found murdered inside her own home. The evidence against Jori-Ray was overwhelming—her blood at the scene, her DNA under the victim’s nails, surveillance footage placing her there. It was one of Nick Teffinger’s first homicide cases, and it looked airtight. He didn’t have to stretch. He didn’t have to guess. The facts lined up in a perfect, merciless row.
The jury took less than a day to convict her.
Case closed.
Now, five years later, Jori-Ray Rose has escaped from prison.
But she isn’t running.
She isn’t hiding.
She’s come back to the one man who helped put her away.
She wants Nick Teffinger to reopen the case—and prove she didn’t kill the senator’s daughter.
Teffinger knows better than to believe in miracles. He saw the evidence. He stood in the blood. He testified.
Yet Jori-Ray isn’t pleading. She isn’t begging.
She’s forcing his hand.
Because she claims someone else is still out there.
And if Teffinger refuses to dig up the past, she’s prepared to destroy his future.
In a city where power protects its own and secrets are worth killing for, Teffinger must decide whether he convicted the right woman… or whether he’s been living with a catastrophic mistake.
Some cases never die.
They wait.
Genre: Mystery
She was Senator John Stone’s hidden obsession—young, stunning, and dangerously close to his family. Then, in a single, blood-soaked night, she became something else entirely.
A killer.
Stone’s daughter was found murdered inside her own home. The evidence against Jori-Ray was overwhelming—her blood at the scene, her DNA under the victim’s nails, surveillance footage placing her there. It was one of Nick Teffinger’s first homicide cases, and it looked airtight. He didn’t have to stretch. He didn’t have to guess. The facts lined up in a perfect, merciless row.
The jury took less than a day to convict her.
Case closed.
Now, five years later, Jori-Ray Rose has escaped from prison.
But she isn’t running.
She isn’t hiding.
She’s come back to the one man who helped put her away.
She wants Nick Teffinger to reopen the case—and prove she didn’t kill the senator’s daughter.
Teffinger knows better than to believe in miracles. He saw the evidence. He stood in the blood. He testified.
Yet Jori-Ray isn’t pleading. She isn’t begging.
She’s forcing his hand.
Because she claims someone else is still out there.
And if Teffinger refuses to dig up the past, she’s prepared to destroy his future.
In a city where power protects its own and secrets are worth killing for, Teffinger must decide whether he convicted the right woman… or whether he’s been living with a catastrophic mistake.
Some cases never die.
They wait.
Genre: Mystery
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