Men, Madness, Murder

Mona-Lise (M.L.) Hadley is a wisecracking, pot-smoking, man-loving Manhattan private investigator with a hard-won distaste for marriage — which is why she refuses even the most lucrative straying-spouse cases. Until one blustery March afternoon, when Germain Tailleur bursts into her office begging her to find out what her husband Stephen is up to.

M.L. takes the case — she has to; she’s already involved. She finds Stephen in the company of a cool blonde, but adultery turns out to be the least of his problems: the blonde is dead. A fast, fun mystery that tails its suspects across the mean (and not-so-mean) streets of Manhattan, all the way to a desolate wind farm in Northern California.

A twenty-first-century female private eye carrying on the tradition of twentieth-century detectives like Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade.