Moriah Dru’s weekend off with her lover, Lieutenant Richard Lake, is interrupted when Atlanta juvenile court judge Portia Devon hires Dru to find two sisters who’ve gone missing after their foster parents’ house burns down.
An ex-cop, Dru established Child Trace, Inc., after leaving the force. Judge Devon sees to it that Lake is assigned to head the police investigation, because Dru and Lake together have a habit of solving cases.
After questioning the neighbors, the couple decides that the abduction of the girls looks like more than an ordinary kidnapping. Dru learns that in the past eight years two other foster children from the area have gone missing. The investigation turns up a snitch who tells Dru he’s heard that a secret sex organization, with members named after chess pieces, is bound for Costa Rica with two girls. The chase is on to stop the kidnappers before they escape the country.
The latest winner of the Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Novel Competition, The End Game features a strong new heroine in a vivid Southern setting. Gerrie Ferris Finger puts a new spin on the classic mystery novel.
My thoughts
The End Game is the story of two young girls who disappear after their foster parents are killed and their house burned down. They may have been possibly abducted. Moriah Dru, a former cop, now an investigator specializing in finding missing children is hired. He soon learns that they may have victims of child abductors and other children have disappeared in the past. This story gets more passionate as Dru and Lt. Lake (the officer assigned to the case) get closer and closer to the answer.
I enjoyed reading this novel as the characters were interesting and the action not too deep. It a quick read and although the subject matter is disturbing, Gerrie Ferris Finger has written a mystery that kept me involved.
Note: I received this book through paperbackswap.com
1 comments:
Thanks for the review, Dan.
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