Lost in Spindle City: A Ricky Steele Novel (Volume 3) (Ricky Steele Mysteries)

“As usual, the subject matter finds a way to stir our conscience, in this one, its street kids' travails” After discovering a child prostitute on her doorstep, P.I. Ricky Steele begins a wild search for her client’s 12-year-old friend. Her quest plunges her deep into Spindle City’s thriving underworld of drugs and prostitution. From there, the investigation takes her to the city’s wealthiest neighborhoods and its exclusive country club, worlds she happily left behind in her teens.On home turf with this outing, Ricky enlists the aid of friends like her hunky next door neighbor, Vinnie, and Bunny, her childhood friend and local realtor, who gains her access to the exclusive Aquinesset Club. Running buddy, Phil Rubin, a physician, ministers medical care to her young client, and golfer, Mark Fallon, the north end’s hottest woodworker, pokes around places where Ricky cannot go.Even her on again, off again, lover, Jay Harp lends a hand, introducing her to Wilda, a six foot four, martial arts trained, security specialist, who provides critical muscle when Ricky most needs her. Murders, beatings, and near misses plague the intrepid sleuth as she closes in on a killer. Join Ricky for this rollicking ride filled danger, romance and surprise.“…our Ricky is funny and self-effacing in a familiar, endearing way.”