First published 2001
Moses Wine sits in his psychiatrist's office, his life falling apart. The Tulip Computer Corporation fired him from his security job. His children ignore him. His detective career has stalled. The shrink has an unusual prescription: take on a new case. A comedian who worked as the straight man in America's top comedy duo has plunged from a building to his death. The official verdict is suicide, but the dead man's wife believes someone murdered her husband. Moses follows the investigation from Los Angeles beach communities to the South Bronx. He encounters dangerous criminals, seductive women, and bizarre suspects. The case pulls him deeper into a world where nothing is as it seems. Moses discovers that solving this mystery might cure his depression, but it could also get him killed.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, detective
Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Los Angeles, South Bronx
Period: 20th-century
240 pages · Paperback · UNKNO