Mourning Gloria: A Leah Hudson Thriller (Leah Hudson Thrillers Book 1)

Mourning Gloria: A Leah Hudson Thriller (Leah Hudson Thrillers Book 1)

by Andrew Downs

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312 pages~5.2 hr readPublished by CreateSpace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished 2015-01-01

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The investigation into Gloria Stone's disappearance went cold years ago. When Agent Leah Hudson takes the case, she finds little to work with. Gloria, an affluent wine heiress, survived a brutal attack on her twenty-first birthday before vanishing shortly after, leaving behind an abandoned car and a town eager to move on. Hudson is a rising agent assigned to this dead-end case after a botched indictment allowed a killer to escape. As she retraces the failed investigation, she discovers Gloria was not simply a tragedy—she was targeted. A predator is hunting the Central Valley, selecting a specific type of victim: women already broken by the world. Hudson alone recognizes the pattern, but her discovery comes with a cost. The hunter is no longer distant; he walks among the prey, concealed behind an unexpected mask. The case that seemed long dead proves far more dangerous than anyone realized.

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