Moonbird Boy

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 facility run by a band of Kumeyaay Indians, and host to Bo after the death of her dog casts her into an acute depressive episode.  But when another guest at the lodge, successful comedian Mort Wagman, is shot and killed, Bo drags herself back to life in order to help Mort’s strange son, Bird, now an orphan.  And in the process discovers a human evil more toxic than rattlesnake venom.

“…Padgett weaves strands of neurophysiological research, Indian ritual, murder, big business, WW II atrocities, family ties and romance… into a gripping novel.”  Publisher’s Weekly