Moriah Dru/Richard Lake Mystery
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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.
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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.
