Live Long Day — Larry Darter

Live Long Day is the fifth novel in the thrilling Malone Private Investigator Series of Crime and Suspense Thrillers. If you like page turning action, dry wit, and a hint of romance, then you'll love this high-octane private investigator thriller.

On the surface, except for a strict, ill-tempered step-father, Bridgette Carpenter seems to have everything a teenage girl could want. She has a family, nice clothes and lives in a nice home in a nice middle-class neighborhood. But, if everything is so right, why does everything seem so wrong? Malone decides to find out when he hires on to go after a runaway girl.

Unfortunately, by the time Malone picks up her trail Bridgette has already traveled to a place that seems a million miles away from her nice home in Echo Park. Now she is caught up in the dark world of drugs, pimps, and sexual exploitation -- a kind of hell on earth inhabited by people who care only about making a fast buck and savoring forbidden pleasures.

Can Malone find Bridgette in time before she falls victim to appalling, unspeakable acts that will steal her childhood and perhaps her very life?