Killing Innocence: 2 (Jack Fariel Denver Mysteries)

KILLING INNOCENCE the second installment in Merit Clarks award-winning Denver-based mysteries takes homicide detective Jack Fariel deep into the world of human trafficking.How could four young women simply disappear? One similarity between them-girls no one cared about no one would look for no one would miss. Perfect prey.What if a church was a front for human trafficking?A minister with deadly secrets.A brutal zealot for hire.A sadistic manipulative millionaire.And dead girls discarded in Denvers back alleys.Detective Jack Fariel has more bodies than leads or time. When his homicide investigation uncovers a sex trafficking ring Jack realizes hes not up against a single murderer but a criminal network with ties to the Middle East.Vulnerable undocumented immigrant girls think theyve found safe harbor at a church not realizing theyve landed in the grips of a corrupt minister willing to sell them into servitude or sex work for the right price. As girls start dying it takes all of Jacks skill and experience to stop the trafficking and stay alive himself. As he gets closer to the truth the detective is hunted by an adversary with no remorse no conscience no hesitation.But Jack wont let these young innocents down. Hell stop the trafficking even if it costs him his life.