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"Saudi Arabian prince, Husam al Saliba, hires child-finder Moriah Dru to find his missing American
wife, Reeve, and daughter, Shahrazad. 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 cousin 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 were killed.
They hated their prince son-in-law. He is immediately suspected when the Atlanta police, in the person of Dru's
lover Lt. Richard Lake, come into the case.
It’s soon evident infidelity
abounds and everyone has something dreadful to hide. ******************************************************************************************************* From Running with Wild Blood
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 was murdered
and a student at Winters Farm Academy. Juliet had told her mother that she was going to ride to Bike Week in Florida 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, is murdered in Chattanooga where Wild Blood moved after leaving suspicion behind
in Atlanta. Dru
discovers that Trapp was trying to find the killer of his daughter, but got too close. Dru also discovers that things were
not all that they should be at the school that Juliet and her friend Bunny Raddison attended. When she looks for Bunny, she
cannot find her. Dru and Lake join forces with a wary Wild Blood to solve the murders and clear the club, if, indeed, everyone
in it can be cleared -- of murder. ******************************************************************************************************* Kings River Life says: The debut of this series,
THE END GAME, won the author the St. Martin’s Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Novel
and four novels have been published since, the latest will be released in February 2015. The entire series
continues to prove that Ms Finger was completely deserving of that honor. Dru’s voice wields an occasional black humor ... and one
can completely believe that she has the skills to disarm an attacker and proves herself as a very competent and capable investigator. Her
love and need to protect children is entertainingly ... unforgettable. The novels at
their heart prove to be noir mysteries that demand a reader’s full
attention. Dru and her team are a winning combination. -- Kings River Life Please click on each title page for a complete synopsis of
all the novels.
Buy online or at major book stores
Murder as Performance
Art MURMURS OF INSANITY The
Story Moriah
Dru, a former Atlanta police officer who now runs Child Trace, walks out of court and into trouble. She’s searching
for Johndro Phillips, a teen whose drug dealer boss is acquitted when Johndro doesn’t testify. After Dru is shot at
on her way home, she moves into the well-protected home of her lover, Atlanta homicide detective Richard Lake, who wants
her to look into a problem his ex-wife’s half brother Baxter Carlisle is having. Cho Martine, a mysterious young woman
whose boyfriend, Damian, is missing, has accused Baxter of stalking her. Baxter is a charming, handsome, wealthy man with
a reputation for liking much younger women. Once she’s met him, though, Dru is convinced he’s no stalker. The
computer wizard who works for Dru discovers that Cho is really an alias for someone who’s forged the paperwork needed
to get into the University of Georgia. But her boyfriend, Damian, is all too real and all too missing. Baxter hires Dru to
clear his name and tells her that Damian and Cho, whoever she is, are heavily involved in the performance art scene. So when
some of Damian’s possessions turn up in weird places along an Atlanta hiking trail, Dru has to wonder if the clues are
all part of an elaborate piece of performance art. Meanwhile, Dru’s search for Johndro involves her and Lake in a shootout
with gang members. The bodies start to pile up as Dru struggles to discover the real reason for Damian’s disappearance.
-- Kirkus Reviews
THE DEVIL LAUGHED
Third in the Moriah Dru/Richard Lake Series
The Story
Moriah Dru, owner of Child Trace, and her lover, Richard Lake, an Atlanta police lieutenant,
have been invited to Lake Lanier in the mountains of North Georgia for the scorcher of a 4th
of July holiday. There, Dru discovers the stern of a boat protruding from the waters in a cove. It’s the sailboat
Scuppernong, missing nearly four years and uncovered by lake evaporation. Two couples – Johnny and
Candice Browne and Laurant and Janet Cocineau – were on the boat the day they and the sailboat
disappeared – partying, drinking, getting thrown out of a marina restaurant. Johnny’s
body was discovered in the water with his head bashed in. The other three have never been found;
gone without a trace. There are theories. From Candice and Laurant skipping to Rio to they’re all in a trunk
at the bottom of the lake. Once the sailboat has been examined and no bodies found in it, a cadaver dog
is brought to the scene. The body she discovers is not one of the boaters, but a woman from Yarrow
(fictitious) a small Georgia mountain town on the lake. Candice’s daughter, Evangeline, wants to
hire Dru to find her mother. Evangeline is a thirteen-year-old prodigy who Dru has dubbed Princess
Pita – pain in the ass. Portia Devon the juvenile judge prevails upon Dru to take the case.
Since she first discovered the sailboat and since Portia is her childhood friend, Dru agrees to
work for a child to find an adult, instead of the reverse. The fee is enormous to discourage Evangeline
and her uncle, but they’re very wealthy. Dru goes to work, aided by Lake and Webdog, her computer hacker.
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..."Since no bodies can be found aboard the
craft, Dru and Richard head for the small Georgia mountain community where it was last seen. At a diner there, Dru meets a
very young girl whose mother has also vanished. All too soon, the police find the mother's body in the lake. The Browne
and Cocineau families who were partying on the sailboat when it disappeared had been at odds over a vineyard in Cape Fear,
N.C. When Dru follows the trail there, her visit leads to another death and uncovers money laundering and other criminal doings.
When all is said and done, however, it is the closemouthed, closely knit mountain community that holds the answers. Dru's
third (The Last Temptation, 2012, etc.) provides plenty of quirky characters and surprising revelations." -
KIRKUS REVIEWS |
Moriah Dru, an ex-cop, has her own detective
agency, Child Trace, and specializes in finding missing children. Her boyfriend, Richard Lake is a detective for the police
department in Atlanta. Sometimes their cases intersect and they find themselves working together. Murmurs of Insanity is the fourth installment
in the series written by award-winning author Gerrie Ferris Finger. Dru’s best friend, Portia, is a judge (who refers
missing children’s cases to her) and asks her to locate Johndro Phillips, a teenager who is missing. Johndro witnessed
a drug deal and murder while working for a dangerous and ruthless drug dealer. Johndro’s life is in danger, since the
drug dealer often eliminates witnesses so they can’t testify against him. Dru is also hired by Lake’s ex-wife’s
wealthy half-brother, Baxter Carlisle, a successful restaurateur, to find a missing young man, and gets involved in a bizarre
sphere of the art world, putting not only her life, but the lives of several others, on the line. Being a foodie, I appreciate the fact that several
places where Dru attends dinner with Baxter and eats at his restaurants, the food is described in detail; the mouthwatering
dishes made me hungry and it was tempting to stop reading and get something good to eat. - Bella Online
Moriah Dru, an ex-cop, has her own
detective agency, Child Trace, and specializes in finding missing children. Her boyfriend, Richard Lake is a detective for
the police department in Atlanta. Sometimes their cases intersect and they find themselves working together. Murmurs of Insanity is the fourth installment
in the series written by award-winning author Gerrie Ferris Finger. Dru’s best friend, Portia, is a judge (who refers
missing children’s cases to her) and asks her to locate Johndro Phillips, a teenager who is missing. Johndro witnessed
a drug deal and murder while working for a dangerous and ruthless drug dealer. Johndro’s life is in danger, since the
drug dealer often eliminates witnesses so they can’t testify against him. Dru is also hired by Lake’s ex-wife’s
wealthy half-brother, Baxter Carlisle, a successful restaurateur, to find a missing young man, and gets involved in a bizarre
sphere of the art world, putting not only her life, but the lives of several others, on the line. Being a foodie, I appreciate the fact that several
places where Dru attends dinner with Baxter and eats at his restaurants, the food is described in detail; the mouthwatering
dishes made me hungry and it was tempting to stop reading and get something good to eat. - Bella Online
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