Bo Bradley Series by Abigail Padgett
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Overview: Mary Abigail Padgett (born May 13, 1942, in Vincennes, Indiana) is an American author of mystery novels who features in Great Women Mystery Writers (2007). Padgett graduated in 1964 from Indiana University, Bloomington with a degree in education then earned a master’s in counselling from the University of Missouri in 1969; between the two she taught high school English in St. Louis. She then had several different jobs before becoming a court investigator for Child Protective Services in San Diego, a post she left in 1988 to concentrate on writing and advocacy for children and the mentally ill.
Padgett’s first series concerns Barbara "Bo" Bradley, a child protection advocate investigator in San Diego who suffers from bipolar disorder. Her second series features Blue McCarron, a reclusive lesbian social psychologist.
Genre: Thriller/Thriller
(#1) Child of Silence
Padgett’s gritty and absorbing debut novel featuring a San Diego child abuse investigator evokes the emotional and psychological intensity of Jonathan Kellerman’s bestselling Alex Delaware books. Bo Bradley loves her job as an abuse investigator, but a troubling new case threatens not only a child’s life but her own.
(#2) Strawgirl
Three-year-old Samantha Franer is dead of internal injuries brought on by rape. Worse yet, an eerie symbol – the spiked face of a straw-like man – has been painted on her abdomen. All fingers of guilt point at the child’s stepfather, Paul Massieu, known member of an obscure cult based in New York State. Pompous pediatricians, presumptive police, and an eager press cry "satanism." Bo knows better. She has long ago learned to heed her heightened perceptions and her own intuition. This time they tell her that this is no case of ritual abuse. Then the victim’s sister vanishes, undoubtedly kidnapped by Massieu, and Bo is placed on the case. Tracking eight-year-old Hannah Franer leads her to the misty hills of New York’s Hudson Valley and the cult’s "hideout." But Bo sees no evil here, a feeling underscored by the cult leader, an Iroquois mystic who is as wise as she is ageless. Two other things Bo senses strongly: Paul Massieu is not guilty; and only the truth can free young Hannah from the psychic torment that could destroy her. Following her instincts, Bo vows to uncover the real monster and save the lives of future victims. It is a desperate search that will lead Bo into the deepest recesses of the mind and the darkest caverns of the earth. And it will place her livelihood – and her life – in dire jeopardy.
(#3) Turtle Baby
His hair is ebony. His skin is ruddy brown. He is unmistakably Mayan, even at eight months. They call him Acito, or little turtle. In fact, he seems to be as hard-shelled as his animal-spirit namesake. Lucky for him, because he’s just survived a near-fatal poisoning. The lab analysis reveals that the toxin found in Acito’s body is a rare, deadly herb that has to be carefully cultivated, harvested, and stored. There is no doubt that someone was trying to kill the child. As she pulls strings and makes deals to place Acito in a loving home, Bo must ask herself the unthinkable: who would want to murder a little Indian baby? Could it be the seemingly modest Latino couple paid to care for him? Or his elusive mother, an exotic folk singer clawing her way to the top of the Mexican music scene? Or the strange yanqui hillbilly who performs with her? And where – and who – is Acito’s father? Finally, what could possibly be the motive? Despite the not entirely unwelcome distraction of a love affair, Bo pursues a trail of misty clues to the Mexican border town of Tijuana. Here her instincts – and the heightened perceptions that ever haunt and guide her – direct her into a seething brew of drugs and prostitution, stealth, and ambition. But ancient traditions and evil spirits hover over the case, even when Bo escapes to the desert to seek solace from her own demons. And they will lead her to the answers she seeks…in the lair of an obsessed and duplicitous killer.
(#4) Moonbird Boy
A child protective investigator in the San Diego juvenile court system, Bo Bradley is courageous, compassionate, unique. She also struggles with manic depression.
(#5) The Dollmaker’s Daughters
In her fifth case, social worker Bo Bradley tries to divine the connection between a fifteen-year-old girl’s mysterious state of panic, her dysfunctional family, and the beautifully crafted doll chained to her wrist.
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