All God's Children: A Novel

Michael Laurier is not the best investigator, or at least he didn't start off that way. It was never his life's ambition to solve crimes. But when one particular cold case hits home, it alters the trajectory of his career and he finds himself in the middle of a global scandal that creates news headlines in Washington, D.C. Turns out he is a much better detective than anyone would have imagined. All God's Children is a book series about an infamous family whose legacy spanned over 400 years, and two continents, from the transatlantic slave trade to modern day abduction and trafficking of children; and the mixed cultural families they created and destroyed on the pathway to power. Many people died in the blizzard of 1978, so the trauma of the elementary school children went unnoticed. But somewhere between the night of the blizzard and the day the children were ordered back to school, a pink and white child’s scarf was picked up by a plow truck, along with the other debris, leaving in the storm's aftermath of dirty snow a tale that will unravel a south shore town's buried secrets. All it takes is for one child to repeat the story long enough for the cry to call out to God. Read more