Moriah Dru and Richard Lake Mysteries Books
Moriah Dru’s weekend off with her lover, Lieutenant Richard Lake, is interrupted when Atlanta juvenile court judge Portia Devon hires Dru to find two sisters who’ve gone missing after their foster parents’ house burns down. An ex-cop, Dru established Child Trace, Inc., after leaving the force. Judge Devon sees to it that Lake is assigned to head the police investigation, because Dru and Lake together have a habit of solving cases. After questioning the neighbors, the couple decide that the abduction of the girls looks like more than an ordinary kidnapping. Dru learns that in the past eight years two other foster children from the area have gone missing. The investigation turns up a snitch who tells Dru he’s heard that a secret sex organization, with members named after chess pieces, is bound for Costa Rica with two girls. The chase is on to stop the kidnappers before they escape the country. The latest winner of the Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Novel Competition, The End Game features a strong new heroine in a vivid Southern setting. Gerrie Ferris Finger puts a new spin on the classic mystery novel.
In this Moriah Dru/Richard Lake mystery series entry‚ Dru discovers the stern of a boat protruding from a deep-water cove. It's the sailboat Scuppernong‚ missing nearly four years. Two couples -- Laurant and Janet‚ and Johnny and Candice -- partied on the boat the night they and the sailboat disappeared. Johnny's body was discovered with his head bashed in at the marina. The other three and the boat disappeared without a trace. Investigators find no bodies and theories abound. Popular among them is adulterers Laurant and Candice skipped to Rio‚ a country they visited. In a reverse of her child finder role‚ Dru is hired to find Candice by thirteen-year-old Evangeline‚ a precocious girl who has unshakeable faith that her mother is alive.
Teen Johndro Phillips is missing after witnessing a drug deal turn to murder in his Atlanta neighborhood. Johndro is a spotter and runner for drug lord Devus Dontel "Big DD" McFersen, who was acquitted when Johndro couldn't testify against himself. Lake asks Dru to talk to his ex-wife, Linda. Seems her half-brother's predilection for young women has gotten him mixed up with the student art community, two of whom go missing. Damian Hansel, his friend Arne Trammel and the mysterious Cho Martine devised a Conceptual Art Performance to shake-up the tranquil community. Articles of Damian's are found on nature trails, and, absent a body, the police think it's a treasure hunt. Dru thinks not.
Richard Lake of the Atlanta Police Department gets a cold case when a witness suddenly gets his memory back. Lake recruits Moriah Dru to look into the murder of Juliet Trapp‚ sixteen when she died‚ and a student at Winters Farm Academy. Juliet Trapp had told her mother she was going to Bike Week with Wild Blood‚ an outlaw motorcycle gang‚ over the Christmas break. The police were unable to solve Juliet's murder after interviews with the bikers. The case roars into high gear when Juliet's father‚ Sherman Trapp‚ is murdered in Chattanooga where Wild Blood is the predominant motorcycle club. Dru discovers that Trapp was trying to find the killer of his daughter‚ but got too close.
"Saudi Arabian prince, Husam al Saliba, hires Dru to find his missing wife, Reeve and daughter, Shahrazad (Shara). The investigation begin when Husam tells of falling in love with Reeve, of turning his back on his ascendancy to the Saudi power structure for the woman he loves. He talks of his king's disapproval of him marrying and siring an infidel. But does he really want to return to the good graces of the royal family and marry Aya and be an heir to kingship? Confused Dru thinks she's fallen into a fairy tale. After all the prince is fond of reciting tales from the Arabian Nights. The investigation had just begun when Reeve's parents, Lowell and Donna Cresley are killed. That brings the Atlanta police into the case and it's soon evident infidelity abounds and everyone has something dreadful to hide. "
A Moriah Dru / Richard Lake mystery The seventh in the Dru/Lake series begins when Atlanta’s famous police dog, Buddy, is stolen from his handler’s SUV. The community howls in anguish over the canine’s disappearance, and soon A.P.D. Lieutenant Richard Lake is on the hunt with his lover, P.I. Moriah Dru. The trail leads to an investment scam, dubbed The Wolves of Atlanta, and a mega-church’s finances. As they dig deeper, the bodies begin piling up, reminding them of the old adage, “Let sleeping dogs lie.”
The Loblolly Farm is a good place to go missing, especially when their horses run at major tracks like Belmont and Saratoga. The disappearance of Soire, an orphaned exercise rider, prompts Evangeline to seek help in finding her friend.Evangeline is sassy, filthy rich, and fourteen-years-old. As a former client of Child Trace, she saunters into Moriah Dru’s office expecting the detective to drop everything. And against her better judgment, Moriah Dru does just that …Soon Moriah Dru and Lieutenant Richard Lake (her “hunky boyfriend” as per the flirtatious Evangeline) are orbiting the equestrian world, and the Loblolly Farm seems the epicenter of violence and corruption.
A "Moriah Dru, Child Trace" mystery ... The Appalachian Trail is 2,200 miles long, passing through 14 different states … Plenty of distance for two young women to go missing. Several days later, their mutilated bodies are discovered near the Wohali-Mama Shelter. Soft-drink tycoon Alistair MacDunnich hires Moriah Dru, Child Trace, to learn the truth about their deaths. Was the homeless vagrant, long since executed, actually the killer? Could the murderer still be alive and planning to wed MacDunnich’s daughter? The victims may not have been innocent. Jaclyn Long and Callie May could have gotten more than they bargained for. Moriah Dru embarks on the most physically taxing case of her career. One wrong step, literally and figuratively, and it’s a long way down ...