Ex-cop Frank Leland isn't your usual PI. No trench coat full of bourbon - just regrets, compulsions, and a city full of bad choices.
In the chaotic streets of 1977 New York City - teetering on bankruptcy, darkened by blackouts, and terrorized by the Son of Sam - Frank can't outrun what he's lost. He doesn't drink to forget. He eats - and then hates himself for it. He cracks wise but rarely smiles. He tells himself he's doing good, when mostly he's just trying to stop the bleeding.
It's been five years since he left the force under suspicious circumstances during the Knapp Commission. He's lost his badge, his marriage, and the life he thought he'd have. Now he scrapes by chasing down missing persons and working the divorce cases no one else wants.
Then a very desperate, very pregnant woman hires him to clear her ad-man husband, accused of murdering his boss. The cops say it's open-and-shut - the guy's prints are all over the weapon. Frank's not so sure.
What starts as a hopeless favor turns into something darker - twisting through Madison Avenue ad agencies, dirty money, and powerful people with everything to hide. To survive it, Frank has to team up with Ruthie Luft - one of the first nine women in NYPD's Homicide Unit, and the only person who knows what he's really running from.
WORKING STIFF is razor-edged noir that strips the genre to the bone - then feeds it something greasy at 2 a.m.
Perfect for fans of gritty, character-driven mysteries:
✔ A PI who eats his feelings while solving other people's problems
✔ A city of broken lights, bad cops, and worse secrets
✔ A hardboiled mystery set in the garbage-strewn streets of 1970s NYC
✔ Written by a native New Yorker who lived through it
Come back to the New York of blackouts, dirty money, and broken dreams - and meet a detective just trying not to break.
Some jobs are murder. Buy WORKING STIFF now.
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