Carey Hart, Detective — Robert M. Johnson

This is a work of contemporary fiction, a mystery novel set in the Boston, MA area.Party time at the Rendez-Vous Nightclub in downtown Boston for two young women who know how to party. By the time the night is spinning for them, they are on their way to disaster. Followed from the club by three rough looking men, the girls are taken into a van and disappear into the Boston night. Their senses now come alive as the adrenaline overcomes the effects of Alcohol and cocaine. Their screams are muffled by their captors with growls of "Shut up bitch " as the sounds of ripping undergarments fill the cavern of the moving van. Soon duct tape makes all vocal reaction useless and the sexual assaults begin. From the front seat, an older man tries to talk some sense into the brutal attackers. They are too good at sexual abuse to stop now. The grunting and shouting goes on as the van pulls off into an alley near the Boston Common. In less than an hour, both girls have been sexually brutalized and one of the girls is dead, her face beaten to a pulp and her throat slit in a violent expression of rage. The other girl is numb and appears barely alive. Detective Caroline "Carey" Hart is called in to investigate a homicide and solve a kidnapping. The story will take her and her team of detectives and State Police all the way to the Canadian border in search of the kidnapped girl and the local thugs who have taken her. This is a first Caroline Hart Novel, there will be more to come.