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    Tagalong: JD Pickens Mysteries, #6
    Murder On Grange Road: JD Pickens Mysteries, #2
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    JD Pickens Mysteries Series

    By George Encizo

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    About this series

    When the ten-year-old daughter of a prominent attorney is kidnapped, Sheriff JD Pickens goes into overdrive to recover the girl only to discover that things aren't always how they appear. For one thing, the daughter is adopted and doesn't know it. For another thing, her uncle is a federal prosecutor who wants to help. Then there is a ransom note—an email message that warns the girl's mother not to contact the authorities. Fearful for her daughter's life, she is reluctant to talk to the sheriff, but she's known him all her life and used to tagalong with him and her older brother when they were teenagers.

    Pickens needs to work with clues, and they are few to begin with. The glimpse of a white van that doesn't belong in the neighborhood leads to the hunt for a sketch artist to draw a composite portrait. The girl's dog tried to attack the kidnapper before being kicked aside, which leads to a very unusual clue. Finally, Pickens calls on a private investigator to bring another skill set to the investigation and get more information from the mother, Allison. During a conversation with her brother, the mother reveals that her daughter, Melinda was adopted. Concerned that the abduction might involve the birth parents, Pickens immediately wonders if this might be a lead, a motive for someone to grab the girl.

    Pickens is informed that trying to open a closed adoption is ill-advised and not to go there. Dropping that avenue of pursuit, Pickens collects DNA evidence from his prime suspect when the suspect tosses out a cigarette butt. Putting a hard rush on the DNA, once it is uploaded to CODIS, all hell breaks lose because the FBI has warrants out for the suspect on other charges, and Melinda's DNA is uploaded at another database due to healthcare issues from several years earlier. The suspect turns out to be Melinda's biological father.

    By the time the genetics get sorted out and a surveillance drone confirms the location where Melinda is held captive, the manhunt is in position, sniper and FBI agents included. But a tangled past and a determined uncle will jeopardize the rescue.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGeorge Encizo
    Release dateMay 20, 2021
    Tagalong: JD Pickens Mysteries, #6
    Murder On Grange Road: JD Pickens Mysteries, #2

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      Murder On Grange Road: JD Pickens Mysteries, #2
      Murder On Grange Road: JD Pickens Mysteries, #2

      Murder On Grange Road: JD Pickens Mysteries, #2

      George Encizo
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      Quail hunting in Central Florida was supposed to be an exciting experience. But lately, for Bo Tatum, the owner of Tatum's Hunting Resort off Grange Roadnear Lake Azur, it had been a disaster. Instead of his dogs flushing out birds, they'd been digging up human bodies. Sheriff JD Pickens and County Medical Exsaniner, Dr. Marge Davids, were plannining a festive holiday season. But theeir plans ere put on hold thanks to Tatum's discoveries. Undermanned and ill-equipped in a city and county where such things rarely happened, Pickens and Davids will need to muster all the ingenuity they can to solve the mysteries of the bodies, including getting help from an expert in forensic scidenced. With clues scarce and few leads, Pickens and Davidshad to rely on unconventional methods as a last resort. When tempers started to flare during the investigations, Pickens had to use every ounce of patirnce he could muster to stay calm and in control.

      Quail hunting in Central Florida was supposed to be an exciting experience. But lately, for Bo Tatum, the owner of Tatum's Hunting Resort off Grange Roadnear Lake Azur, it had been a disaster. Instead of his dogs flushing out birds, they'd been digging up human bodies. Sheriff JD Pickens and County Medical Exsaniner, Dr. Marge Davids, were plannining a festive holiday season. But theeir plans ere put on hold thanks to Tatum's discoveries. Undermanned and ill-equipped in a city and county where such things rarely happened, Pickens and Davids will need to muster all the ingenuity they can to solve the mysteries of the bodies, including getting help from an expert in forensic scidenced. With clues scarce and few leads, Pickens and Davidshad to rely on unconventional methods as a last resort. When tempers started to flare during the investigations, Pickens had to use every ounce of patirnce he could muster to stay calm and in control.

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      Tagalong: JD Pickens Mysteries, #6
      Tagalong: JD Pickens Mysteries, #6

      Tagalong: JD Pickens Mysteries, #6

      George Encizo
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      When the ten-year-old daughter of a prominent attorney is kidnapped, Sheriff JD Pickens goes into overdrive to recover the girl only to discover that things aren't always how they appear. For one thing, the daughter is adopted and doesn't know it. For another thing, her uncle is a federal prosecutor who wants to help. Then there is a ransom note—an email message that warns the girl's mother not to contact the authorities. Fearful for her daughter's life, she is reluctant to talk to the sheriff, but she's known him all her life and used to tagalong with him and her older brother when they were teenagers. Pickens needs to work with clues, and they are few to begin with. The glimpse of a white van that doesn't belong in the neighborhood leads to the hunt for a sketch artist to draw a composite portrait. The girl's dog tried to attack the kidnapper before being kicked aside, which leads to a very unusual clue. Finally, Pickens calls on a private investigator to bring another skill set to the investigation and get more information from the mother, Allison. During a conversation with her brother, the mother reveals that her daughter, Melinda was adopted. Concerned that the abduction might involve the birth parents, Pickens immediately wonders if this might be a lead, a motive for someone to grab the girl. Pickens is informed that trying to open a closed adoption is ill-advised and not to go there. Dropping that avenue of pursuit, Pickens collects DNA evidence from his prime suspect when the suspect tosses out a cigarette butt. Putting a hard rush on the DNA, once it is uploaded to CODIS, all hell breaks lose because the FBI has warrants out for the suspect on other charges, and Melinda's DNA is uploaded at another database due to healthcare issues from several years earlier. The suspect turns out to be Melinda's biological father. By the time the genetics get sorted out and a surveillance drone confirms the location where Melinda is held captive, the manhunt is in position, sniper and FBI agents included. But a tangled past and a determined uncle will jeopardize the rescue.

      When the ten-year-old daughter of a prominent attorney is kidnapped, Sheriff JD Pickens goes into overdrive to recover the girl only to discover that things aren't always how they appear. For one thing, the daughter is adopted and doesn't know it. For another thing, her uncle is a federal prosecutor who wants to help. Then there is a ransom note—an email message that warns the girl's mother not to contact the authorities. Fearful for her daughter's life, she is reluctant to talk to the sheriff, but she's known him all her life and used to tagalong with him and her older brother when they were teenagers. Pickens needs to work with clues, and they are few to begin with. The glimpse of a white van that doesn't belong in the neighborhood leads to the hunt for a sketch artist to draw a composite portrait. The girl's dog tried to attack the kidnapper before being kicked aside, which leads to a very unusual clue. Finally, Pickens calls on a private investigator to bring another skill set to the investigation and get more information from the mother, Allison. During a conversation with her brother, the mother reveals that her daughter, Melinda was adopted. Concerned that the abduction might involve the birth parents, Pickens immediately wonders if this might be a lead, a motive for someone to grab the girl. Pickens is informed that trying to open a closed adoption is ill-advised and not to go there. Dropping that avenue of pursuit, Pickens collects DNA evidence from his prime suspect when the suspect tosses out a cigarette butt. Putting a hard rush on the DNA, once it is uploaded to CODIS, all hell breaks lose because the FBI has warrants out for the suspect on other charges, and Melinda's DNA is uploaded at another database due to healthcare issues from several years earlier. The suspect turns out to be Melinda's biological father. By the time the genetics get sorted out and a surveillance drone confirms the location where Melinda is held captive, the manhunt is in position, sniper and FBI agents included. But a tangled past and a determined uncle will jeopardize the rescue.

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