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    Sweet Dreams
    Sweet Dreams
    Sweet Dreams
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    Sweet Dreams

    By Fred McKibben

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    BEAUTIFUL SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD ZOEY PATRIZ is missing in a dangerous city. Despite the hard feelings Eddie Rose has for his ex-wife, Kay Luckett, he agrees to leave his new-found paradise in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, to help her and her sister, Lilli Patriz, find out what happened Zoey in New Orleans.
    Warren Patriz, Zoey’s father, hooks Eddie up with Little Boy Russell, Chief of Security at his company, who moonlights as a private investigator and knows the city like the back of his hand. Their investigation has barely started when Zoey turns up in the New Orleans city jail charged with the murder of the man she was last seen with. Now, Eddie’s and Little Boy must prove Zoey didn’t murder Steven LeBlanc. Along the way, they break up a sex-slave trafficking ring, uncover a massive fraud, and stop a foreign espionage operation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFred McKibben
    Release dateApr 17, 2019
    ISBN9781370568321
    Sweet Dreams
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    Fred McKibben

    Fred McKibben is the author of the highly acclaimed Gardeners trilogy, Hot Times in the Garden of Eden, The Salt Castle, and The Carnival Road. The series has been described as suspense with strong elements of science fiction, politics, history, anthropology and romance. The allegorical story is particularly relevant in the current political environment where the rise of strongman rulers portends losses of individual freedom, knowledge growth, and creativity. The full series is also available as a compilation titled Seven Deadly Sinners.In addition to the Gardeners trilogy, Fred has written The Shadow of Death (2016) and Sweet Dreams (2017). Both are murder mysteries featuring Eddie Rose, a semi-retired insurance investigator.Fred lives in Southern Spain with his wife and two dogs. After many years as a finance executive and entrepreneur, he decided to try his hand at writing fiction. A More Perfect Union (expected release in 2019) will be the first of planned series of historical romance novels set in the early United States.

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