Mayhem

A dead girl. A seductive client. A city rotting from the inside out.

When private investigator Steve Deveroux is hired to look into a young woman's suspicious death, he figures it's just another grieving friend chasing ghosts.He figures wrong.

The cops called it an accident. The autopsy says murder. And the trail leads straight to a small-time dealer pushing something new and something worse. They call it Mayhem. High-end origins. Low-life kill rate. It rots a man from the inside while he's still walking around.

The deeper Deveroux digs, the more he finds: corrupt cops, street-level killers, and a client who knows far more than she's saying. Maybe all of it. Maybe she's the reason the bodies are stacking up in the first place.With a smart-mouthed ex-partner watching his back, a target on his chest, and a past full of regrets he can't outrun, Steve has to find the truth before someone finds him first.

"The smell of burnt coffee and fried onions clung to the air like the past to a guilty man." Perfect for fans of Robert B. Parker's Spenser, Robert Crais's Elvis Cole, and Michael Connelly's Bosch. A hardboiled PI thriller with sharp dialogue, brutal fights, and a hero who takes his coffee black and his chances bloody. Start the Deveroux Investigations today.