Gun with Occasional Music

<p><strong>A hard-boiled detective tale full of talking animals and murder from the award-winning author of <em>Motherless Brooklyn</em> and <em>The Arrest</em></strong></p><p>Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems--there's a rabbit in his waiting room and a trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail. Near-future Oakland is a brave new world where evolved animals are members of society the police monitor citizens by their karma levels and mind-numbing drugs such as Forgettol and Acceptol are all the rage.</p><p>Metcalf has been shadowing Celeste the wife of an affluent doctor. Perhaps he's falling a little in love with her at the same time. When the doctor turns up dead our amiable investigator finds himself caught in a crossfire between the boys from the Inquisitor's Office and gangsters who operate out of the back room of a bar called the Fickle Muse.</p><p>Mixing elements of sci-fi noir and mystery this clever first novel from a beloved author is a wry funny and satiric look at all that the future may hold.</p>