02354cam a2200337 i 4500 1604502142 TxAuBib 20240923120000.0 240301s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781496749949 hbk. 1496749944 hbk. TxAuBib rda Michaels, Fern, author. Backwater justice / Fern Michaels. New York : Kensington Publishing Corporation, 2024. 293 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sisterhood, The "The small Oregon town of Mountain Valley seems like the perfect place to safely raise a family, away from the dangers of the big city. Vanessa's parents think so, until the day their fourteen-year-old daughter doesn't come home for dinner. They call her cell. Straight to voice mail. They call her friends. Nothing. An attendant at the local gas station mentions seeing a girl fitting Vanessa's description getting into a pick-up truck that he thinks belongs to one of the Spanglers. Everyone knows the Spanglersthe richest, most influential family for miles around. Patriarch Milton Spangler offers a $50,000 reward, determined to quash any notion that his family might be involved. But as search parties fail to yield any clues, another young woman goes missing. Are these simply disillusioned runaways? Or does the Spangler family have something to hide? Myra Rutledge has honed her instincts over scores of missions, and the news stories about missing young women set her internal alarms ringing, especially when it involved her old friend, Milton Spangler. She shares her concerns with other women of the Sisterhood, and they agree to look into the goings-on in Mountain Valley. But a small town like this can have deep secrets, especially when one family holds so much power."--Provided by publisher. 20240923. Missing persons Investigation Fiction. Rich people Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Small cities Fiction. Oregon Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. lcgft Thrillers (Fiction.) lcgft The sisterhood.