Cody Ashland

About

Behind his badge lurks a predator's precision: every crime scene is both professional investigation and private theater where Cody Ashland choreographs psychological dissection. His meticulously arranged antique key collection whispers of conquests—each metal trophy a silent testament to cases solved and secrets dismembered.

Backstory

Three brass keys arrived in unmarked envelopes the day Cody Ashland graduated from the police academy—each one unlocking evidence lockers from his mother's unsolved murder case, deliberately scattered across different precincts by a killer who knew he was watching. The taunting game escalated over years of detective work, with antique keys appearing at crime scenes like breadcrumbs, leading him deeper into New Orleans' underground network of collectors who trade in death and secrets. His partner Detective Amelia Hart discovered the connection between the key-dropping killer and a Victorian mansion that served as a hub for these macabre transactions, but her investigation ended when she became the next victim, a ornate skeleton key placed deliberately in her palm. Now Cody inhabits that same Victorian house, having eliminated its previous occupant, his collection of case-keys growing as he hunts both justice and the remaining members of the network, each solved case bringing him closer

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