Lost Sisters: A Ryder Nguyen Mystery

Lost Sisters: A Ryder Nguyen Mystery. By David Marshall Hunt

While in high school and college, Ryder Nguyen has passionately read all of the Travis McGee novels and is eager to follow in his footsteps. Half a century has passed since novelist John D. MacDonald created the compelling character of Travis McGee. He risks danger while salvaging lost and stolen property. But McGee is always mindful of the delicate balance of nature in the Florida Everglades. Commercial ventures and inept environmental management are destroying the ecological system in the 21st century.

Ryder crews aboard the trawler owned by her adopted family in the dangerous and environmentally challenging business of shrimp trawling on the Gulf Coast of the Florida panhandle. Simultaneously Ryder learns about responsibility to our planet while tracing her mixed heritage and searching for the sister she was separated from during the Viet Nam War.
Ryder starts a career as a private investigator and is struggling to make ends meet. Then a cold case comes her way. A case involving the kidnapping of the great-granddaughter of Florida billionaire Wentworth Cody Billings. Billings could care less about his great-granddaughter's fate. So, why should Ryder take on the case? Because Billings has a second great-granddaughter who believes her sister is alive. Together they hope to rescue their lost sisters.
The magnitude of environmental challenges facing the Florida Panhandle unfolds as the adventure mystery takes Ryder into the swamps and forests of the Apalachicola National Forest facing danger at every twist and turn of the rivers in pursuit of the kidnappers.