Sweetwater Ranch — Geoffrey Norman

TROUBLE ON THE REDNEXK RIVIERA

You won't find northern Florida's steamy Panhandle on a picture postcard. But its sluggish streams and piney woods suit Morgan Hunt just fine. Some hard time in the slammer has left him on a short fuse. He needs slow afternoons fishing and lazy evenings lovemaking to cool down. He doesn't need ex-football star "Big John" Fearson's case. Any P.I. knows that missing kids are pure heartbreak: they turn up battered, corrupted, or dead. This boy's a runaway from Sweetwater Ranch, the home Fearson operates for troubled youngsters. Coupled with another teen's charges of abuse, Big John looks guilty as hell...and Hunt's search for a little boy lost may be a dark road to deadly secrets, murder, and revenge.