A couple shot dead during sex in an upscale San Francisco condo fuels a media frenzy still simmering long after cops rush the murders to cold-case oblivion. Enter private investigator Beaupre, a wise-cracking disgraced ex-cop hired by the male victim’s estranged lover, herself a “person of interest,” to track down the killer. 

            Tripping over his own clues and hubris, leaving a trail of bodies and recrimination, Beaupre sees the hunt for a shooter go sinister—and shockingly personal. All the while he’s dogged by the vengeful father of a skinhead lying comatose from Beaupre’s beating. That off-duty incident and a flimsy battering charge against an ex-girlfriend earned him the boot from SFPD.

            Finding the killer may be Beaupre’s best—his only—chance to redeem. Along the way he falls in love with a federal prosecutor, only to mess up the relationship; the behavior of his client grows increasingly bizarre; a runaway girl out of the Tenderloin wends her way into his heart; and a duplicitous North Beach bar owner unwittingly gums up the case.

            Probing the murdered young woman’s past, Beaupre bumps into a Sonoran drug cartel, with painful results. Soon he and a hacker buddy are chasing a pedophile accountant on the lam in Thailand and a Pomo hitman in Northern California Indian country. A casino washing drug money, an obscure gem mine, and a retro sting aided by Afghan refugees bring the case into focus. But would that be enough?