The Daughter Blue Creek s golden girl is gone Two days ago Shara McGregor the girl whose face adorns the junior college billboard on the highway headed west to Springfield A bright future lay ahead After she co
Blue Creek s golden girl is gone.Two days ago, Shara McGregor, the girl whose face adorns the junior college billboard on the highway, headed west to Springfield A bright future lay ahead After she completed her undergraduate degree, her mentor, former State Senator Willis Sparkes would pull the right strings to get her into a good law school Despite her humble origin Blue Creek s golden girl is gone.Two days ago, Shara McGregor, the girl whose face adorns the junior college billboard on the highway, headed west to Springfield A bright future lay ahead After she completed her undergraduate degree, her mentor, former State Senator Willis Sparkes would pull the right strings to get her into a good law school Despite her humble origins, the small town girl seemed destined to be among the movers and shakers However, Shara never made it to Springfield.Yesterday, two counties away, three drunken teenagers found her car hidden in the woods near an abandoned cemetery in the Irish Wilderness area Having lost the keys to their own car, they borrowed it to go home for another key When a deputy stopped them, he found blood in the car lots of blood.Since the girl came from Blue Creek, Hawthorn County has jurisdiction Deputy Richard Carter begins what he assumes will be a short investigation After all, this wasn t criminal genius at work or was it The he learns about the girl, the Richard becomes emotionally involved She seems one of his own, one of the good people The obsessive compulsive ex Marine pours his soul into the investigation, spurred by an irrational fear that something similar could happen to his own seven year old daughter Mirabelle someday.Except for Shara s blood in the car, there is no physical evidence no murder weapon, no crime scene, no body, and no one with a mot
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AR Simmons writes The Richard Carter Mystery Suspense series Obsession drives each of his monsters, and monsters they are PTSD and OCD drive Richard himself as he evolves from a damaged soldier, to amateur sleuth, to professional criminalist albeit in a small and underfunded rural Ozark sheriff s department AR no punctuation was born in Chicago, but his roots run four generations deep in Miss AR Simmons writes The Richard Carter Mystery Suspense series Obsession drives each of his monsters, and monsters they are PTSD and OCD drive Richard himself as he evolves from a damaged soldier, to amateur sleuth, to professional criminalist albeit in a small and underfunded rural Ozark sheriff s department AR no punctuation was born in Chicago, but his roots run four generations deep in Missouri Ozark soil He uses the area s culture, language, and small town s to tell stories both quaintly old fashioned and as timely as the worst of today s headlines Blue Creek is Everytown , and Richard is an Everyman who learns, that Man is positively inclined to evil