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Ladies of the Lake: A Mystery Novel
Ladies of the Lake: A Mystery Novel
Ladies of the Lake: A Mystery Novel
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Ladies of the Lake: A Mystery Novel

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Stony Sturm is a disabled former police detective who was forced into retirement from the LAPD. Departing under a cloud of suspicion after his partner was murdered. For several years since then has been idling away his days. A wealthy San Diego criminal lawyer approaches him at his favorite Donut Shop demanding that he opens up a cold murder case. The lawyers young daughter in-law, Melody, was discovered at Lake Perris; nude, raped and murdered. No one has been caught nor punished. The Riverside Police maintain she was a victim of a serial killer who murdered twelve women.
The serial killer ended his killing spree after her murder. The police claim he is dead or has disappeared. Stony, an uncertain middle-aged man is reluctantly drawn back into the criminal investigation of Melodys murder as a private investigator. He rapidly rediscovers his previous skills and investigates relentlessly in spite of major objections of the police and politicians. With the able support of Alice Persia, the lawyers executive assistant and the protection of Howard Youngfeather, a former special services soldier, Stony uncovers a series of unanticipated criminal operations, including a major government scandal.
In the process of solving Melodys murder he witnesses an explosive assassination of a senior gang snitch, and avoids an attempted IED attack upon himself. What seemed like a straight forward murder investigation leads him into a complicated venture involving MS-13 gangs and government perfidy. A former Sheriff who assisted Stony is brutally murdered. A raw unrelenting story of a man who finds himself and the truth, which exposes many issues of todays complex convoluted world of crime, politics and corruption. A gripping mystery story, of diligent sleuthing, and raw revenge, that builds to an explosive conclusion.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherAuthorHouse
Release dateMar 14, 2013
ISBN9781481716369
Ladies of the Lake: A Mystery Novel
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Duncan L. Dieterly

The author seriously began writing fiction when he was sixty-eight years old. He was born and raised in Cincinnati Ohio. He graduated from Withrow High School there, in 1957 and the University of Cincinnati in 1961. He had served as an officer for twenty years in the US Air Force, retiring in 1981. While in the service he acquired his Master Degree at George Washington University in 1971 and a PhD, from the University of Maryland in 1975 in Industrial Organizational Psychology. He had worked as an adjunct professor at several Universities and spent his final twenty two years of employment at a large California Utility. Dr. Duncan Dieterly has survived three marriages and has four grown adult children, a son and three daughters. Previously over a forty year period he had written endless professional papers, articles and technical training guides. He chooses to focus his talent toward fiction during his semi-retirement years. He collects too many books and reads too few as his primary relaxation. Duncan is an apprentice “word weaver” who is seeking to craft stories that entertain and excite readers. He would like to see the world evolve into a better place; allowing all people to achieve their dreams. One of his guiding principals in telling stories is: Omnia exeunt in mysterium. — “All things end in mystery.”

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