Denise Mina reimagines Raymond Chandler's famed and troubled detective Philip Marlowe in this gritty thriller set in 1950s Los Angeles
Marlowe has been asked to find an heiress, Chrissy Brightwell. He does but refuses to tell her father where she is even though he needs the money. At the same time, he is asked to find a woman's missing sister but knows there is something fishy about the request. He finds her easily and is staking her out when she is murdered. He has been set up.
Chrissy Brightwell finds him and helps him understand the world of post WW2 art- the woman who has been killed was about to expose a valuable artist as a Nazi sympathizer back in Paris. This would have ruined his reputation and made his work plummet in value. A lot of money is at stake.
Sent on a suspicious chore by his employer, Marlowe goes to his office and finds a suicide note in his own hand and knows that he is danger.
