A Dragon Lives Forever

Scott McBride, a washed up race car driver, returns to town. His efforts to achieve a comeback have failed. When his body is found floating in Hidden Quarry the day before Homecoming, the death is ruled a murder. What connection does McBride's death have with the disappearance of Paul Samuel, a little boy who disappeared while on his way to Homecoming twenty years earlier? In A Dragon Lives Forever, John Riggs' eighth in his acclaimed Garth Ryland mystery series, we once again meet the memorable cast of characters that make up the small town of Oakalla, Wisconsin, the setting for Riggs' books. There is Sheriff Harold Clark "Clarkie," who knows more than he is willing to tell about Scott McBride; Cheryl Loveless, who had an affair with McBride twenty years earlier. Then there is Butch Loveless, the fiercely jealous husband; Hayden Sims, Cheryl's over-protective father; Goldie Samuel, the missing boy's reclusive mother. These and a lively host of others are headed by local newspaper publisher and deputy sheriff Garth Ryland, who once again finds himself on the trail of a murderer who may hold the key to a secret that has been haunting Oakalla.