An Internal Affair

Do you really know your friends as well as you think? Why did she ever return to Stonybrooke? That was a question Francie Rutledge asked herself daily. Seventeen years earlier, her father, an officer with the Stonybrooke Police, had taken his own life when it became apparent an investigation by Internal Affairs was going to result in his own indictment. Francie, now an officer herself, returned to Stonybrooke entertaining the notion she could redeem her family name. Unfortunately, the stigma of her father's actions made it impossible for her to be accepted on the force. Becoming a Private Investigator, Francie finds herself fighting against this bias and racing against time to find a missing teen age girl who may be the next victim in a series of murders. She relies heavily on the friendships of the two allies she does have in the Police Department, as well as a new found love, Officer Nathaniel B. Harwood. She soon realizes not all her relationships are what they appear. As she works her cases, she makes two startling discoveries: at least one of those close to her is intent on destroying her and there was more to her father's death than she ever knew.