Fracktown Gumshoe

Fitz comes to in an alley. No major injuries, but now he wonders if someone is tailing him. He gets to know the hotel security officer and learns some interesting information.

Fitz learns a little about New Tunstall and the police corruption as he shares a glass of Grappa with Big John.

Fitz contemplates the details of the case and sends Mary Margaret in search of more details. He stops by Barbara Huddleston's last known address.

Glenn Huddleston tells Fitz the details of his marriage to Barbara and her disappearance. But did he kill her?

Bobbie gives Fitz a little background on her relationship with Big John. Fitz makes contact with Pippa's father Glen Huddleston.

Fitz and Bobbie go to lunch. He learns the case may be more complicated than he thought.

Fitz heads to New Tunstall. A look at Barbara Huddleston's past shows a very troubled woman.

College student Pippa Huddleston wants Fitz to find her mother, who's       been missing  for four years. Her complicated family dynamics don't scare  Fitz. They're usually the best place to start. He takes the case.

When a young university student Phillipa Huddleston sits down in the office of Fitzhugh Investigation, she wants Fitz to find her mother, Barbara Huddleston. The problem? She’s been gone for four years and the police were never notified. Why wouldn’t her father report his wife missing? Had he killed her? Why didn’t Pippa’s wealthy grandparents do the same?

The case takes Fitz out of the familiar environs of his hometown, Fawcettville, to New Tunstall, a small town on the Ohio River filled with secrets. Once the center of the country’s pottery business, New Tunstall now struggles with unemployment, opioids and poverty. With no  familiar sources, Fitz must turn to two unlikely allies to help him solve his case.

This is the seventh in Debra Gaskill’s award-winning Fracktown Gumshoe series.

Conclusion.