Murmurs of Insanity

by Gerrie Ferris Finger

Overview

The whole mess began when Johndro Phillips went missing. The teen witnessed a drug deal turn to murder in his Atlanta neighborhood. He was a spotter and runner for a drug lord — who was acquitted when Johndro couldn’t testify against himself.
Then Moriah Dru’s boyfriend introduced his ex-wife, Linda. Her half-brother’s predilection for young women leads him to the student art community. Two apsiring female artists go missing, and he becomes a prime suspect.
Art student Damian Hansel also disappears, but the police brush it off as a “Conceptual Art Performance” to shake-up the tranquil community. Even when Damian’s belongings appear on nature trails, police dismiss the incident as a juvenile treasure hunt. Moriah Dru pursues her leads, and she fears the dubious prize at the trail’s end will be a corpse.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940165738128
Publisher:	Bold Venture Press
Publication date:	12/22/2021
Series:	Moriah Dru: Child Trace
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	385 KB

About the Author

Gerrie Ferris Finger writes: "I grew up in Missouri, then moved south to join The Atlanta Journal-Constitution staff. I researched and edited the columns of humorist Lewis Grizzard and co-wrote a news column with another reporter for three years.
"Lewis became my mentor, and when he passed away, I joined the newspapers’ Southern Task Force. As a reporter, I traveled the Tobacco Roads of Georgia, Virginia and Alabama, and the narrow, historic streets of New Orleans. I wrote about Natchez, Mississippi’s unique history, Florida’s diverse population, and the Outer Banks struggle to keep the Cape Hatteras light house from toppling into the sea. Also, I served on the National News Desk and on the City Desk’s City Life section.
"Since I covered crime for the newspaper, I turned to crime fiction when I retired. In 2009, I won The Malice Domestic/St. Martin’s Minotaur Best First Traditional Novel Competition for The End Game, released by St. Martin’s Minotaur in 2010.
"Real crime is sordid, with no romance or redeeming features. Justice often doesn’t prevail. Real people go back to miserable lives. In writing fiction, I can make the good guys winners and the bad guys get what they deserve.

Editorial Reviews

07/01/2014
Atlanta children's rights advocate Moriah Dru is unsettled by "Big DD" McFersen's harassment; he is a drug lord who evaded a guilty verdict in his latest trial, despite Moriah's testimony. Moriah worries there will be trouble ahead for some of her juvenile clients. Meanwhile, Atlanta homicide detective Richard Lake's ex-wife begs him and Moriah to help her troubled half-brother, Baxter Carlisle, over in Athens. Baxter has a proclivity for dating very young women, and the police are questioning him about a missing college student. While working on Baxter's case, Moriah meets an unusual group of artists who favor "intervention art," a type of performance art. Their dark side results in some ghastly murders that do not bode well for the missing student. Back in Atlanta, DD and his gang are generating violence that sends Moriah and Richard scrambling to find two at-risk youth. VERDICT Finger's fourth series entry (after The Devil Laughed) is bogged down with excessive details. While the book's second half features searing action and a fascinating look into contemporary arts culture, the plotting fails to switch smoothly between the two cases.

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