Into the Fire

Luana Ehrlich begins A Mylas Grey Mystery series with One Day Gone. 

Mylas Grey and his brother Curtis were raised helping their private detective dad do surveillance. They learned to shoot a handgun, defend themselves, and gained insights into investigating people and problems. Their dad hoped one or both of them would join him in his business, but Mylas had his sights set on being a lawyer, and Curtis became a Christian and went into the ministry.  

Mylas left home and attended Georgetown, became a good attorney but proved to excel at investigation. His self-appointed mentor at the small but prestigious law firm where he practiced hooked him up with the senator who chaired the Judiciary Committee in DC and Mylas accepted the job as his chief investigator vetting the judges eligible for federal appointments.

As Mylas begins looking into a particular judge, the senator's daughter disappears and he wants Mylas to conduct an investigation working with the local police to find her. Mylas isn't happy about it, assuming the young woman had probably just taken off for a few days of privacy. Plus, it takes him away from DC when a new investigator is being brought onto the team there and home to Columbia, Missouri, where the girl was attending the university and working on a specific article for their paper about the same judge Mylas is vetting. The further he gets in his interviews, the less it seems as if the senator's daughter was haphazard in her actions before her disappearance.

Mylas begins this first-person story as a focused man who measures his life's work by the amount of money he earns and when an unexpected windfall provides all he'll need, he realizes at his relatively young age, he needs something to occupy himself while applying his talents. His life changes substantially when he least expects it during the investigation of the senator's daughter.

One Day Gone presents an interesting investigative/procedural type of story with unique characters and a positive family dynamic even though Mylas has somewhat kept himself at a distance. Book Two in the Mylas Grey Mystery series Two Days Taken will release later in 2020. 

(This is Christian fiction.)

Father, please continue to bless Luana in your abundance, keep her safe from all harm, and encourage her with more inspiration to write the stories you have just for her to tell. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.