Philadelphia has long memories.
So does Jake Decker.

The Decker Files: A Crime Thriller Series by Cole Maddox

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The Decker Files

A man is dead in a Rittenhouse Square parking garage. The case pulls Decker back twenty years, to a murder he worked, a file he never closed, and a question he has never been able to answer. Some cases don’t wait forever.

The first novel in The Decker Files series.

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Cole Maddox writes crime fiction set in Philadelphia.

The Decker Files is his debut series.

“I wanted to write the kind of detective novel I could not put down: one where the city is as much a character as the man walking its streets.”

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