Things That Go Squeak in the Park (Alexander Moffat Mysteries Book 3)

Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year’s...most people add a few pounds over the holidays. Police Detective Moffat adds unsolved murders to his caseload. When 10-year-old Gina finds a body in the community garden, Captain Moffat realizes something strange is going on at the Department of Environmental Health in the historic western town of Biglerville in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains. A rational motive is elusive, the ‘persons of interest’ have too many secrets, and Captain Moffat will soon meet the most bizarre psychopath of his career.
Just in time for Halloween, Police Captain Alexander Moffat uncovers a series of murders. The body count grows by Thanksgiving. A motive is as obvious as it is unconvincing. Otherwise, if this is the work of a psychopath, he or she is not interested in claiming credit and there is little hope of stopping the next murder.
Moffat, “stalwart and a man of integrity,” uses post-9/11 government data-gathering to question dozens of innocent people. The destruction of a California Black Oak called Old Ironbottom to make room for a new road points in one direction. Psilocybe cubensis mushrooms and a thirty-three nanometer calicivirus point in two others. The most intriguing question is: what went squeak in the park?
Captain Moffat struggles to solve the mystery by Christmas. Meanwhile he and his wife Jean, newly appointed guardians of a troubled but lovable teen, confront his worrisome secret.