State of Justice (Detective Virgil Jones, #10)

The note was direct and to the point, scrawled in her own hand...a frantic, hurried, and hectic message that left Virgil Jones and his brother, Murton Wheeler, wondering if they'd just lost another of their own.

I’m not doing this to you. I’m doing it for you. Please forgive me.

Murton Wheeler's girlfriend, Becky Taylor, is fighting the demons of her past, and when she goes missing in the middle of the night, Virgil and Murton begin a fast and furious search. Her car is in the drive. Her purse, wallet, and phone are on the kitchen counter. There is no sign of a struggle. In fact, there was no struggle at all because when Virgil and Murton check the property's security cameras, they witness Becky walk out onto the road where she is placed in a windowless panel van by two masked men. Who were they, and more importantly, why didn't Becky resist or put up any kind of fight? And the note? What meaning does it hold? Did Becky leave of her own free will, or are there other forces at play, causing her to cooperate in something unknown to Virgil and Murton?

As their investigation unfolds, the clues are few and mysterious. And just when they begin to make any sort of progress, Virgil's boss, Cora LaRue, calls and orders Virgil and the entire Major Crimes Unit down to Clay County, where the sheriff needs their help with a murder investigation in the small town of Harmony. But with Becky still missing, Virgil doesn't want to leave Murton behind to continue the search alone and unaided.

Once again caught between the duties of his job, and the loyalty to his family, Virgil finds himself juggling two seemingly unrelated events...Becky's disappearance, and the murder in Clay County. And he's about to discover the choices he makes will determine not only Becky and Murton's fate, but his own as well.