Gumshoe

USA Today best-selling author IRS agent, feared and despiseda gumshoe for only four hoursfinds Renos missing mayors head For nine long days, the mayor and district attorney of Reno, Nevada, have been missing. Vanished without a trace. Their vehicles were found parked side-by-side at Reno-Tahoe International Airport. Did they fly somewhere together? They arent on any flight manifest. Did the two of them take off with a big pile of the citys money? If so, the city accountants cant find it. Were they murdered? Theres no sign of foul play. Their disappearances have finally made national news. Enter Mortimer Angel, whod just quit a thankless job as an IRS agent. Mort is Renos newest gumshoe, a private-eye-in-training at his nephews detective agency. Just four hours into his new career, Mort finds the mayormake that, the mayors headin the trunk of Morts ex-wifes Mercedes. The news-hungry media speculates: Did Mort kill the mayor? Did Morts ex? As events begin to spin out of control, Mort realizes things have been out of control since the night before he started his new career, the night he found the unknown naked blonde in his bed. Mortimer Angel is my new favorite Private Eye. John Lescroart, New York Times best-selling author While all of the novels in the Mortimer Angel Gumshoe Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is: Gumshoe Gumshoe for Two Gumshoe on the Loose Gumshoe Rock Gumshoe in the Dark