Blood Stains (The Searchers, 1)

Blood Stains (The Searchers, 1) by Sala, Sharon. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780778329411.

At the reading of her fathers will, Maria Slade receives shocking news—as a four-year-old, shed witnessed her prostitute mothers murder and been taken into hiding by the well-meaning preacher whod raised her as his own. Maria remembers none of that. But now shes determined to flush her mothers killer out of hiding and discover the identity of her birth father. She heads to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she meets Detective Bodie Scott. Empathizing with this beautiful woman looking to find out who she really is, he opens the decades-old case file. Their investigation leads them down a dangerous path, where no one is what they seem. Where a father does not want to be found. And a murderer has "like mother, like daughter" in mind for Maria.