Part of Alex McKnight, book 11.5
First published 2020
Alex McKnight sits at the bar in the Glasgow Inn when an old local resident shares a strange tale with him. The former Detroit police officer has heard plenty of stories over the years, but this one keeps him awake at night. McKnight decides to dig deeper into what seems like typical small town gossip. His investigation leads him down an unexpected path that connects to the most famous unsolved case in American criminal history. On July 30, 1975, Jimmy Hoffa walked out of a Michigan restaurant parking lot and vanished without a trace. The FBI has spent decades searching for answers, deploying hundreds of agents to excavate everything from football fields to farmland. McKnight discovers that his quiet corner of Michigan may hold the key to a mystery that has baffled investigators for nearly half a century. What starts as curiosity about local rumors becomes a personal mission that will challenge everything McKnight thought he knew about the case that defined his generation of law enforcement.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, detective, action
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: amateur-sleuth, investigation, personal-mission
Setting: Detroit, Glasgow Inn, Michigan
Period: 1975, 20th-century
29 pages · Kindle Edition · Blackstone Publishing