Pat Ruger Mystery Series- Book 3
When retired detective and FBI consultant Pat Ruger travels to New York to reconnect with FBI agent Amanda Sizemore, he expects their relationship to finally have a chance to move forward. Instead, he finds himself pulled into one of the strangest investigations of his career.
Allen Wright, president of the Kanequa Nation Council, has been shot in his office. But before investigators can determine who killed him—or why—his body disappears from the ambulance transporting him to the hospital.
Then the case gets stranger.
A missing ambulance crew. An abandoned vehicle. A mysterious agricultural research station. Hundreds of thousands of dollars quietly transferred to a university professor who has seemingly vanished. And an unidentified compound that begins turning up in places where it shouldn't.
As Pat and Amanda follow the evidence, they uncover connections among casino expansion, experimental plant research, illicit drugs, and people willing to kill to keep their secrets buried. Before long, Pat becomes a target himself, and the investigation turns painfully personal.
With help from his longtime partner Jimmy Stewart and the FBI agents he has come to trust, Pat must untangle a conspiracy in which almost everyone seems to know only part of the truth—and where discovering who killed Allen Wright may not be nearly as important as discovering what Wright knew before he died.
Set against the towns, waterways, and history of Western New York, Native Species is the third novel in the Pat Ruger Mystery Series—a story of murder, deception, loyalty, loss, and the unexpected relationships that can emerge when everything familiar is suddenly taken away.
Allen Wright, president of the Kanequa Nation Council, has been shot in his office. But before investigators can determine who killed him—or why—his body disappears from the ambulance transporting him to the hospital.
Then the case gets stranger.
A missing ambulance crew. An abandoned vehicle. A mysterious agricultural research station. Hundreds of thousands of dollars quietly transferred to a university professor who has seemingly vanished. And an unidentified compound that begins turning up in places where it shouldn't.
As Pat and Amanda follow the evidence, they uncover connections among casino expansion, experimental plant research, illicit drugs, and people willing to kill to keep their secrets buried. Before long, Pat becomes a target himself, and the investigation turns painfully personal.
With help from his longtime partner Jimmy Stewart and the FBI agents he has come to trust, Pat must untangle a conspiracy in which almost everyone seems to know only part of the truth—and where discovering who killed Allen Wright may not be nearly as important as discovering what Wright knew before he died.
Set against the towns, waterways, and history of Western New York, Native Species is the third novel in the Pat Ruger Mystery Series—a story of murder, deception, loyalty, loss, and the unexpected relationships that can emerge when everything familiar is suddenly taken away.