Abigail Padgett: 9 books

Second in the award-winning Bo Bradley mystery series, STRAWGIRL throws child abuse investigator Bo into the curious world of cults, and pits her against the most loathsome of antagonists. The rape/murder of a little girl is exploited by a sensation-seeking psychologist, arousing the public...

In the fourth Bo Bradley mystery, Bo fights her way out of the dark side of her bipolar disorder when a friend is murdered, throwing his attention-deficit-hyperactivity disordered son into the child protective system for which she works. Ghost Flower Lodge is an unconventional psychiatric treatment...

Five short stories introducing Mandy Dru, whose mom really wanted to name her Nancy.  Lawyer dad, concerned about copyright infringement, urged a different name for the daughter now on her way to becoming a savvy San Diego criminal investigator. Mandy's adventures begin with a beach gift shop...

As Darcy Flannigan’s relationship with ex-Marine Sal Hannan heats up much too soon for comfort. Secrets hidden in her own past coalesce in a deadly threat of which she is unaware despite obscure warnings from Santo, a prescient parrot who also lives in Morgan’s Bay. A Secret at Morgan’s Bay is a full-length novel, second in the Morgan’s Bay romantic suspense series.

Fifth in the Bo Bradley series, in this psychological thriller Bo reaches out to 15-year-old Janny Malcolm, a foster child found frozen in terror at a popular Goth hangout. An exquisite but battered doll is chained to Janny's wrist. She keeps the doll, called "Kimmy," close at all times,...

San Diego Child Abuse Investigator Bo Bradley agrees to accompany significant other Dr. Andrew LaMarche on a two-week business trip to France. Bo, who lives with a bipolar disorder, looks forward to relaxing in a tiny Alpine village, painting scenery and dodging Andy's frequent proposals of marriage. She's...

In the third Bo Bradley mystery, a poisoned eight-month-old Maya baby boy living with paid caretakers on the American side of San Diego's Mexican border grabs Bo's heart and sends her into Tijuana, where she can legally investigate nothing, in search the little boy's mother.  When the mother,...

Darcy Flannigan isn’t thinking that love can turn up at the worst possible time. Fleeing a seriously bad relationship, she isn’t thinking about love at all as she heads to a forgotten little California beach village called Morgan’s Bay to hide out with an ancient great-aunt. Then an unexpected...

In the first award-winning Bo Bradley Mystery, Child of Silence, an old Paiute woman finds a four-year-old boy tied to a mattress in an abandoned shack in the hills above San Diego, and child abuse investigator Bo Bradley gets the case. Staff at St. Mary's Hospital for Children assume the boy is mentally...