Moriah Dru / Richard Lake

The Moriah Dru/Richard Lake series is a series of six novels by author 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, which seek out the truth regardless of the consequences. What makes the Moriah Dru/Richard Lake team so effective in their work is that they seem to set up their investigations without seeming to do so. By doing so, they catch their suspects by surprise almost every time.