The Carpool Detectives

What an amazing book, The Carpool Detectives written by Chuck Hogan follows four women as they break wide open a cold case in California. 

Four young mothers who are finding their lives a little stale come together to investigate a cold case they saw in a newsreel.  Marissa, Jeannie, Samira, and Nicole meet at a school function and decide to use their varied special strengths to start looking into a car that has turned up at the bottom of steep ravine with two dead bodies. 

The women whose children are becoming more independent, are feeling useless and decide this will be a way to feel productive again.  They start going through old news stories and making phone calls finding out that 10 years ago a couple went missing along with a million dollars and closed up the family business. Then their bodies were found in the crashed car. The two people are now victims instead of thieves.  Then the case went cold and police stopped investigating.

The women with no law enforcement background, interested in journalism, start looking at old newspaper clippings, looking through old police files and meeting with a policeman willing to give them a little information that keeps them moving the investigation further ahead.  At times it gets dangerous but they are determined too find the answers that have alluded the law for so long.

This is a true story that reads like a crime novel.  A fascinating story of some very impressive ladies.