Declan Hughes

After twenty years in Los Angeles, Ed Loy has come home to bury his mother. But hers is only the first dead body he encounters after crossing an ocean. The city Loy once knew is an unrecognizable place, filled with gangsters, seducers, hucksters, and crazies, each with a scheme and an angle. But he can't refuse the sexy former schoolmate who asks him to find her missing husband-or the old pal-turned-small time criminal who shows up on Loy's doorstep...

Returning to Dublin following the death of his mother, L.A. private detective Ed Loy takes on the case of an old friend who asks him to find her missing husband, unaware that the case will trap him in the middle of a dangerous quest.