P.M. Carlson: Bloodstream (USA 1996)

From the Publisher:
Shrewd and feisty as ever, Deputy Marty Hopkins of the Nichols County, Indiana, sheriff's office has missing persons on the mind: her husband, on the run and out of her reach, her ten-year-old daughter, thinking of following in her father's footsteps; and fourteen-year-old Johnny Donato, recently reported missing. When Johnny's mutilated body is found floating in the White River, the town turns its wary eyes on a group of newcomers performing an archaeological dig bankrolled by wealthy Arizona developer Bob Rueger.

Rueger wants to re-create a utopian agricultural village originally founded by his great-grandfather on the site of the dig. But Johnny's body is found so close to Rueger's land that the tycoon's motives are called into question. Yet the river seems to hide a more sinister truth -- a truth Marty's set on finding. Soon a second tragedy confounds every law enforcer on the case. Marty is a cop but she's also a mother, and this new twist is every reens oments, Saming the countryside, staking new prey.

P.M. Carlson: Bloodstream. A Marty Hopkins Mystery. Pocket Books, ISBN: 0671769782 (June, 1996), 336 p., $5.99.

P.M. Carlson: Bloodstream (USA 1995)

From the Publisher:
Marty has missing persons on the mind: her husband, who's always on the run and out of her reach; her ten-year-old daughter, who's thinking of following in her father's footsteps; and, finally, fourteen-year-old Johnny Donato. But that file closes; no longer a case of missing persons, it becomes a case of murder. Young Johnny's mutilated body is found floating in the East Fork of the White River, bringing a small town's deepest fears swirling to the surface.

Several of the locals turn wary eyes on a group of newcomers, who have begun an archaeological dig bankrolled by wealthy Arizona developer Bob Rueger. Rueger's great-grandfather had founded a utopian religious community in Nichols County. Now Rueger has returned to Indiana to re-create this agricultural village, steeped in local history and culture. When Johnny's body is found so close to Rueger's land, the enterprising tycoon's motives are called into question - and a cloud of suspicion falls on the entire crew he has assembled to bring his dream to life.

P.M. Carlson: Bloodstream. A Marty Hopkins Mystery. Pocket Books, ISBN: 0671769774 (June, 1995), 324 p., $20.00.