David R Dowdy

The Hero of Deceit David R Dowdy

THE HERO OF DECEIT, SPARROW & HAYNES MYSTERY #2, 3rd Edition. Seventeen-year-old Woodward High School senior Bonita Sorangel Morris faces a dilemma. Against her teacher's wishes, she's made her mother Berta the focus of her senior investigative paper. With the due date near, the teacher demands she change her subject to something less personal. Bonita has no resources and little time to support a new paper. Along comes a lucky break when she discovers a lost cellphone, a source of salacious texts that tell of large-scale narcotics dealings right in Woodward. Bonita plunges into a new paper. When the texts stop, for unknown reasons, she panics. Her chances of finishing the paper dwindle. She has no idea that forces oppose her and will do anything to ensure her paper and all she knows dies. After someone close to her dies suspiciously, Detective Lieutenant Sparrow and philosophy teacher Haynes discover Bonita has wholly underestimated the danger imposed by the writer of the texts. THE HERO OF DECEIT. An illuminating story that reminds us evil succeeds when it wears a mask of goodness and that fear is wasted on the deception we don't face.