Pat Ruger Mystery Series- Book 4
Retired detective Pat Ruger is still trying to come to terms with the loss of Amanda when a desperate couple walks into PAL Investigations with a problem he can’t ignore: their sixteen-year-old daughter, April, has disappeared.
She hasn’t simply run away. April has joined the Children of Bartholomew, the same secretive religious group Pat encountered years earlier in the Colorado mountains.
The Children have moved since then, settling near the small town of Rollinsville, where they keep mostly to themselves and outsiders are decidedly unwelcome. What begins as a search for one missing teenager soon raises disturbing questions. Other young people may be involved. People connected to the group have died. And whatever is happening behind the compound’s guarded boundaries appears to be far more dangerous than Pat first imagined.
With his young friend Tory at his side and help from his partners at PAL Investigations, Pat begins digging into the Children’s activities. The deeper they look, the more troubling the situation becomes—and when two members of his team go undercover inside the compound, the investigation suddenly becomes very personal.
Before long, Pat finds himself navigating abandoned mines, hidden agendas, unexplained deaths, and a threat that may extend far beyond one isolated group in the Colorado mountains.
At the same time, he must confront something he can’t solve with a gun or an investigator’s instincts: how to keep living after losing someone he loved.
Set against the mountains and small towns of Colorado, Children’s Reprise is the fourth Pat Ruger mystery, blending suspense, humor, friendship, loss, and a conspiracy that becomes more dangerous with every answer Pat uncovers.
She hasn’t simply run away. April has joined the Children of Bartholomew, the same secretive religious group Pat encountered years earlier in the Colorado mountains.
The Children have moved since then, settling near the small town of Rollinsville, where they keep mostly to themselves and outsiders are decidedly unwelcome. What begins as a search for one missing teenager soon raises disturbing questions. Other young people may be involved. People connected to the group have died. And whatever is happening behind the compound’s guarded boundaries appears to be far more dangerous than Pat first imagined.
With his young friend Tory at his side and help from his partners at PAL Investigations, Pat begins digging into the Children’s activities. The deeper they look, the more troubling the situation becomes—and when two members of his team go undercover inside the compound, the investigation suddenly becomes very personal.
Before long, Pat finds himself navigating abandoned mines, hidden agendas, unexplained deaths, and a threat that may extend far beyond one isolated group in the Colorado mountains.
At the same time, he must confront something he can’t solve with a gun or an investigator’s instincts: how to keep living after losing someone he loved.
Set against the mountains and small towns of Colorado, Children’s Reprise is the fourth Pat Ruger mystery, blending suspense, humor, friendship, loss, and a conspiracy that becomes more dangerous with every answer Pat uncovers.
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Pat Ruger: Children"s Reprise (Book 4)
Pat Ruger: Children"s Reprise (Book 4)