"A well-crafted, enjoyable and intriguing mystery that, for better or worse, is a little heavy on the protagonist's breast-level view of the world." -
IndieReader
No one wants to be a patsy or a fall guy, but somebody's got to do it.
A happy nobody, Monk is charged with finding a missing woman wanted in a grisly killing. Upper management tells him he's got this, but fools and dead men convince him that may not be the case. But the lure of easy money is a powerful force, and Monk isn't foolish enough to think anyone will listen no matter how deadly the pursuit may be for them, or for him.
Falling in love along the way, and a longing to heal old wounds add to his problems as he searches for the missing woman, and others for him. A nasty beating only heightens his desire to find the woman before the people lurking in the shadows decide to put an end to her, and to him.