Moriah Dru Themes

The Moriah Dru/Richard Lake series is a series of six novels by Gerrie Ferris Finger a retired American journalist. The mystery novel series features Moriah Dru a former police detective who now runs Child Trace Inc, a lost child finding service. Set in Atlanta, the series sees Dru work lost children cases in conjunction with police lieutenant Richard Lake. Known simply as Dru to her friends, Moriah Dru is very effective at ferreting out information from seemingly normal looking people and situations. When we first meet the two characters, they are in a romantic relationship, which continues throughout the entire series. Called upon to solve a range of child disappearances in Atlanta, Georgia, the two partners work very well together meticulously piecing together tiny leads to find missing children. Both Dru and Lake are quite the lovable detective type characters that seek

The child’s father who is fighting with Eileen over the custody of the child lives in Atlanta, and is convinced that the mother is hiding Kinley among the Indians in the desert. Moriah Dru and Richard Lake are hire by the Juvenile court to find the child and bring it home.
An expert at reading seemingly normal criminal suspects, Dru is wary of the intellectual looking Bradley. He has Ivy league academic credentials, is rich but is a member of certain secretive societies. While Lake digs for any links between the kidnapping and the Atlanta Suburban Girl Murders, Dru investigates Bradley’s history. During the investigation she meets several possible suspects such as Phillippe a self-proclaimed Cordon Bleu chef; Heidi, Arlo’s widowed neighbor’ Dartagan Leroi a police officer among others. With so many possible suspects, the case continues to get more