Part of Harry Stoner Mystery, book 10
First published 2013
Harry Stoner sits in his office in the dead of January, nursing Scotch and living on credit card advances. Business has dried up completely. Then Leon Tubin walks in with cash and a strange problem. Someone in his record collecting group is stealing his vintage LPs, worth ten thousand dollars. Leon suspects his Wagner obsessed rival Sherwood Loeffler. Harry finds the collectors eccentric but honest. The real mystery becomes Leon's wife Sheila, a former lounge singer whose beauty seems mismatched with her odd husband. Sheila claims Leon rescued her from her past and she would do anything to protect him. Harry discovers that Sheila's history connects to the missing records in ways he never expected. The case twists through bizarre clues that lead Harry far from simple theft into deeper secrets about loyalty, love, and the prices people pay to reinvent themselves.
Genres: fiction, mystery, crime, thriller
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
Audio CD · Blackstone Publishing