Fitzgerald

Robert Carroll had established CIS, Carroll Investigative Services, when he retired from the Indianapolis Police Department. He had spent the ensuing three years building a reputation as one of the most effective private investigators in the state of Indiana. However, nothing he had experienced in his decades-long law enforcement career nor in his subsequently safer but more lucrative private work, prepared him for the challenge he found himself involved in after his administrative assistant inadvertently brought the grieving grandparents of the victim of a mysterious murder in a sleepy little town in South Georgia into his life at just the point where he had decided he needed a vacation. Well-trained and long devoted to the idea of giving all potential clients at least a courteous intake interview, he soon found himself sympathetically enmeshed with the elderly couple and - with vacation plans on hold - walking the turn-of-the-20th century streets of Fitzgerald, Georgia, where it would not take long for him to learn the feisty, sharp-tongued, 111-year-old, African American, sole -surviving daughter of the town's founding generation was the key to solving the recent crime as well as a 119-year-old murder-connected puzzle of a long lost fortune in gold and Confederate dollars which had set the scene for the current mystery. Along the way, he learns how to speak the language of the South and how to defer to the instinctive insight of one who had always known a good man when she met one -- whether he was the great great grandson of a Civil War veteran or a modern day big city police detective. Murder solved and his informal adoption into the family of his crime-solving elderly "Aunt Ruth" completed, Detective Carroll signs off with the intimated promise of more to come. Readers will, no doubt, want more!

• | Author: Chet Powell
• | Publisher: Fitzgerald
• | Publication Date: Aug 18, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 356 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0692768696
• | ISBN-13: 9780692768693