Chasing Truth and Redemption
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Book three of The Detective Carla McBride Chronicles, Chasing Truth and Redemption, is about Penny Miracle, a beautiful, mature teenager, who disappeared without a trace in the summer of 1997. On that day, an up-and-coming rookie police officer, Carla McBride, and her mentor, Tony Picetti, were the first officers on the scene. Bernie Kowalski, who had just achieved detective status, was assigned as the lead investigator. After numerous interviews, tips, and dead-end leads, the case fell stone cold. It laid dormant until the police's forensic psychologist Beth Pendergast, Penny's childhood friend, was assigned the case.
Beth is thrust into action with Detectives Carla McBride and Bernie Kowalski in hopes of solving Penny's disappearance that has haunted each of them for the past fifteen years. Their paths had never crossed since that fateful day, and now, as they seek truth and redemption, their lives will never be the same. Chasing Truth and Redemption, the third novel in The Detective Carla McBride Chronicles, is an intriguing and spell-bounding mystery with an ending you will not expect.
Follow the continuing saga of The Detective Carla McBride Chronicles at Nick Lewis - Author on Facebook or www.nicklewisauthor.com.
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