Detective & the Chinese High-Fin

<p><strong>Finalist for the 2017 Shamus Award</strong></p><p>Attention fans of Carl Hiaasen Harlan Coben and Robert B. Parker! The author of <em>The Detective & The Pipe Girl</em>--nominated for both the Nero Wolfe and Shamus Awards--returns with another whip-smart funny and propulsive mystery featuring singular Los Angeles P.I. John Darvelle.</p><p>Private Detective John Darvelle is back--drinking cheap beer playing ping-pong and sharing his philosophy on everything from work/life balance to restaurants with bad air-conditioning. (He doesn't believe in the former he despises the latter.)</p><p>Darvelle is hired to find the killer of Keaton Fuller a well-born Los Angeles man gunned down in his own driveway. The cops couldn't solve the case in part because everyone who came in contact with Keaton despised him. Translation: Anybody could have done it. Following a trail of the dead man's betrayals Darvelle finds himself in the exotic high-stakes world of rare tropical fish. The fish are certainly valuable enough to kill for but is there something more menacing going on?</p><p>As Darvelle relentlessly drives toward the truth a showdown awaits that is at once riveting visceral and very very dangerous. It's a case only he could solve--just as long as he's willing to put his life on the line.</p>