Richard C ConrathBlood Moon Rising, finalist for the 2019 Royal Palm Literary Award, is Richard Conrath's second novel in a trilogy featuring Cooper, a private detective, who searches for his young kidnapped son while trying to track down other missing people. Conrat is a former Catholic priest who left to teach philosophy in a small college while freelancing for papers like the Cleveland Plain dealer and Sunday Magazine. He left teaching in 1984 and began a series of three-year stints in administration as a college vice-president, president, and then as headmaster of an American school in Turkey. It was there, during the darkness of the Turkish winters, that he began to write his first mystery. Read More Read Less