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Ed Runyon, a former sheriff's deputy haunted by past missing child cases that went horribly wrong, is struggling to launch a PI agency and still live in the Ohio farm country he loves. His love life is in shambles, too, as his partner turns to someone else. His best friend got roughed up by a rogue cop, so Ed is in a fighting mood.
Ed finds a new focus when he is hired to find a runaway chess aficionado who is keeping secrets from his homophobic, religious parents. Finding kids is the reason he became a PI, so Ed is determined to succeed and put the demons and other problems behind him. But Jimmy Zachman made a bad move and ran into far more trouble than he was already in, and the hunt for him leads Ed to a deadly and desperate confrontation. Everything comes down to determination—and one very risky move. Ed must find Jimmy at all costs.
Perfect for fans of John Sandford and Robert Crais
While the novels in the Ed Runyon Mystery Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:
City Problems
Wayward Son
Go Find Daddy (coming 2023)
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- ISBN: 9781608094462
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- ISBN: 9781608094462
- File size: 1009 KB
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- English
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June 13, 2022
In Goble’s fine sequel to 2021’s City Problems, Ed Runyon remains haunted by his professional failures from his time in law enforcement. His inability while an NYPD detective to find a missing girl before she was murdered caused him to struggle with alcohol. His subsequent tenure as a deputy in Ohio’s Miffling County proved frustrating as well, and now Runyon has launched his own investigative agency in rural Ohio. He hopes for redemption when he’s hired to locate missing 15-year-old Jimmy Zachman by the boy’s fundamentalist Christian parents. The clues are few, but after Runyon gets a promising lead from one of the kids Jimmy played chess with, the gumshoe begins to suspect that Jimmy was the victim of an extortion scheme carried out by someone who got access to a compromising photo of the teen. When evidence surfaces that the person responsible for Jimmy’s disappearance may be close to home, the inquiry turns deadly. Strong prose and convincing characters more than make up for a plot that breaks no new ground. Goble demonstrates that a skilled writer can make familiar terrain feel fresh. Agent: Evan Marshall, Evan Marshall Agency.
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