Smoke on the Water

From the master of the hard-boiled detective novel and recipient of the Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award comes Loren D. Estleman's next enthralling Amos Walker mystery, Smoke on the Water.

As the smoke from Canadian wildfires chokes Detroit, PI Amos Walker is tasked with investigating a fatal hit-and-run. The victim is a junior law associate, and the firm he worked with is dead set on locating the confidential documents he should have had on him when he died. But those documents have now gone missing, and all signs are pointing towards the crash being anything but accidental.

Summer in Detroit was hot enough before the smoke descended, but as the temperature rises, Walker will have to track down those documents -- and unearth why they were worth killing over -- before he becomes roadkill himself.