Drink the Tea: A Mystery (Willis Gidney Mysteries)

Willis Gidney is a born liar and rip-off artist an expert at the scam. Growing up without parents or a home by age twelve he is a successful young man running his own small empire until he meets Shadrack Davies. Thats Captain Shadrack Davies of the D.C. Police. Davies wants to reform Gidney and becomes his foster father. Though he tries not to Gidney learns a small amount of ethics from Shad---just enough to bother a kid from the streets for the rest of his life.Now Gidney is a PI walking those same streets. So its no surprise that when his closest friend jazz saxophonist Steps Jackson asks Gidney to find his missing daughter Gidney is compelled to say yes---even though shes been missing for twenty-five years. He finds a woman who may be the girls mother--and within hours she turns up dead. The police accuse Gidney of the murder and throw him in jail.Maybe Gidney should quit while hes behind. But when his investigation puts him up against a ruthless multinational corporation a two-faced congressman and a young woman desperate to conceal her past Gidney has no time left for second thoughts. In fact he may have no time left at all.Thomas Kaufman is a winner of the PWA Best First Private Eye Novel Competition. His debut novel Drink the Tea which boasts an original PI and an engaging cast of characters adds a fresh perspective to the genre.