Traffic

When two sisters are abducted in broad daylight, a quick-witted female sleuth hunts down the Moldovan mafia in this fast-paced, contemporary women's mystery.

A missing bag. A desperate plea. Two sisters taken in broad daylight.

Private investigator Ronnie Lake didn’t plan to dodge an aggressive cab driver, causing a bicycle crash, or infiltrating a Moldovan oligarch’s penthouse before noon. But when the bike messenger she sent sprawling begs for help, Ronnie can’t walk away.

The messenger, Sam, swears her best friend, Marissa, is in trouble. She needs Ronnie to grab a worn blue canvas bag from Marissa’s high-security penthouse, and she insists Ronnie not call the police.

Inside, Ronnie finds the place ransacked, with chilling signs of a recent struggle. Two men return to keep searching while she’s still there, so Ronnie snatches the bag and escapes down the stairwell.

Outside, reunited with Sam, Ronnie watches helplessly as Marissa and her ten-year-old half-sister are forced into a van. Sam finally dares say the name behind it: Maxim Popov, Marissa’s father—Eastern European mafia. Now Ronnie is chasing a trail that leads to a brutal trafficking pipeline, where women vanish and fear keeps everyone silent.

Traffic is Book 4 in the Ronnie Lake Mysteries, a female sleuth mystery thriller packed with twists, urgency, and hard-hitting suspense.

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Praise for Traffic:                            

★★★★★ “It’s refreshing to find a confident, intrepid woman kicking ass and taking names in a genre so historically male-dominated.”

★★★★★ “I found this to be a real page turner about the subject of human trafficking…”

★★★★★ “This is a detective story focused on human trafficking… While reading, I often had knots in my stomach.”

★★★★★ “What a suspenseful and thrilling story…”

★★★★★ “The author handles the sensitive topic of human trafficking with realism and sensitivity, avoiding sensationalism.”

Daughter of a Cold War covert intelligence officer, Niki Danforth has the "thriller/adventure" gene in her DNA. After a career as a successful TV/video producer and director in New York, this empty-nester picked up her first love of suspenseful mystery books and recreated herself as an author of mysteries and kids' adventures. Danforth lives in the New Jersey countryside with her husband and two drama-queen dogs. When she's not hard at work writing, she can often be found with her nose in a book or listening to the audio version while she walks her dogs.