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Finalist for the 2017 Shamus AwardAttention fans of Carl Hiaasen Harlan Coben and Robert B. Parker! The author of The Detective & The Pipe Girl—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.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.)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?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.