Jigsaw Files

Book Two in the Jigsaw series following The Missing Piece. In this suspense novel PI Charlie Dodge and his enigmatic partner Wyrick on searching for a missing twelve year old girl who was kidnapped by her estranged father and is now being held by a dangerous cult. Charlie Dodge gets a phone call from Tara Bien, a woman who's twelve year old daughter, Jordan, has been kidnapped by her ex-husband. Jud has been an absentee father most of his daughter's life. Jordan barely knows him, and Tara fears he's taken her into a cult called Fourth Dimension. The cult is rumored to gather men with psychic abilities, with the goal of breeding a race of people who all have powers, as in psychics, mediums, clairvoyants, healers, etc. Once they are accepted into the cult they are given a young girl to marry. To get his own bride, each man must donate a young female from his own family or extended family for another member to marry. Jud took Jordan to the compound so he can marry the girl he's already picked out for himself. Tara is frantic to get Jordan back before that happens to her, and Charlie takes the case with no time to waste. Charlie and Wyrick find men who've left the cult, then learning how the compound is laid out, where the different people stay, and what the security looks like. The FBI has been watching members coming and going from the compound, hoping to catch one of them in an illegal act to have the excuse to get inside and see if it's true about the children. Charlie Dodge's sudden appearance might be the hook they need since he isn't bound by the same restrictions the FBI is to make a rescue legal. Before the Feds can act, they need to know for sure the kids are there. So Charlie and Wyrick make a plan, figure out how Charlie can get in undetected.

He has nothing and everything to lose... When a seventeen-year-old boy goes missing while camping with his buddies in the Chisos Mountains in Big Bend, the case is right up PI Charlie Dodge's alley. Charlie's reputation for finding missing people- especially missing kids-is unparalleled. Unfortunately, trouble seems to be equally good at finding him. Charlie's still in the thick of it when bad news arrives regarding his wife, Annie, whose early onset Alzheimer's is causing her to slip further and further away. The timing couldn't be worse. Thankfully, Charlie's ride-or-die assistant, Wyrick, has his back. But when Universal Theorem, the shadowy and elusive organization from Wyrick's past, escalates its deadly threats against her, it pushes both partners past their breaking points. Finding people is one thing; now Charlie will have to fight to hold on to everyone he holds dear.

In the crosshairs of a killer… PI Charlie Dodge may be down, but he’s most definitely not out. He’s still reeling after a series of earth-shattering events, so when a desperate woman hires Dodge Investigations to find her missing sister, the head-scratcher of a case is exactly the distraction Charlie and his steadfast partner, Wyrick, need. Two days prior, Rachel Dean disappeared without a trace from her locked-from-the-inside Dallas apartment, and every possible trail has gone cold. Grappling with the fallout of her efforts to dismantle the shadowy organization Universal Theorem, Wyrick throws herself into her investigative work. Charlie knows his partner can handle herself, but when she uncovers a past connection that paints a target on her back, the threat of losing her hits Charlie hard. There’s nothing he wouldn’t do to keep Wyrick safe, but with the clock ticking on a victim they’ve yet to find, it’s only a matter of time before the cold-blooded killer leads them to a deadly end.