Follow the Blood: Clint Faraday Mysteries, #9

By C. D. Moulton

A dead man in a traffic accident that was no accident. There is a murder in the same group before ... no, several. Was this some kind of sick insane game where people killed each orher off? Why? were there people actually that mentally deficient?

• Language: English
• Publisher: C. D. Moulton
• Release date: Jun 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201016845

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Clint Faraday mysteries

#9

Follow the Blood

by C. D. Moulton

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This is a work of fiction. Any resemblances to persons, living or dead, or events is purely coincidental unless otherwise stated.

Clint is called by Sergio Sanchez, a good friend with the Policia Nacional in Bocas del Toro to help with a case of murder among some people he was having some trouble with. The trail leads to another murder, earlier, in Costa Rica. Investigating that leads to yet another in Mexico.

Is it a serial killer of some kind – or is there a very understandable motive?

Contents

About the author

Prologue

Deadly Trail

Follow the Blood

Time Out!

1+1 = 9

Weirder Yet

An Answer or Two

Times Past

Manipulating the Manipulators

News Flash

About the author

CD was born in Lakeland, Florida. His education is in genetics and botany. He has traveled over much of the world, particularly when he was in music as a rock rhythm guitarist with some well-known bands in the late sixties and early seventies. He has worked as a high steel worker and as a longshoreman, clerk, orchidist, bar owner, salvage yard manager and landscaper – among other things.

CD began writing fiction in 1984 and has more than 115 books published as of this time in SciFi, murder, orchid culture and various other fields.

He now resides in Bocas del Toro and David, Panamá, where he continues research into epiphytic plants. He loves the culture of the indigenous people and counts a majority of his closer friends among that group. Several have adopted him as their father. He funds those he can afford through the universities where they have all excelled. The Indios are very intelligent people, they are simply too poor (in material things and money. Culturally, they are very wealthy) to pursue higher education.

CD loves Panamá and the people. He plans to spend the rest of his life in the paradise that is Panamá

- Estrelita Suarez V.

CD is involved in research of natural cancer cure at this time. It has proven effective in all cases, so far. It is based on a plant that has been in use for thousands of years, is safe, available, and cheap. He has studied botany, and was cured of a serious lymphoma with use of the plant, Ambrosia peruviana.

Information about this cure is free on the FaceBook page, Ambrosia peruviana for cancer. CD asks only that all who try it please report on its effectiveness on that group.

Follow the Blood

Prologue

Clint Faraday, retired detective from Florida, USA, laid back in the hammock on his deck over Saigon Bay on Isla Colon in Bocas del Toro, Panamá. He sipped the coffee and waved across to Judi Lum, his attractive nextdoor neighbor. She had known him in Florida and met him again in Bocas. Clint had found her to be very useful in the detective work he sort of fell into in Panamá. She was above average intelligent and had a way to get information from people who didn’t know they’d given her any. She could act the perfect airhead around people who didn’t know her and seem not to even hear when they said things.

She waved back and went out onto her deck to check the epiphytic plants she, Clint, and their weird musician friend had collected. Dave was a botanist who was working on classification of epiphytic plants in Panamá, mostly orchids, but also with rhipsalis, bromeliads, anthuriums, and so forth.

He called across to ask if she wanted to go to the Zapatillas, a group of islands in the Bocas del Toro archipelago. She answered that she had to meet with two of the groups she was active in concerning Bocas Town.

Clint said he didn’t really want to go himself. He was just bored.

That case on the coast out of Chiriqui Grande two weeks ago – and you’re bored already? That’s not even reasonable!

Clint laughed. He did get bored easily when he wasn’t active. That was a basic reason he got in the PI business here. The police found they could work with him very well, so he was called in on murders and some kinds of fraud.

Speaking of which, his celular buzzed with a call from Sergio, a friend on the police force.

"Clint? Sanchez here.

Are you free at the moment?

What you got, Sergio?

"A murder. Strange kinds of people. Things not quite