Nickel City Blues

New Yorks Nickel City is host to a treacherous cocktail of sex high-stakes corruption and murder.Private investigator Gideon Rimes a black Iraq War vet and a retired Army CID detective thought hed left behind the danger of the battlefield. He serves subpoenas finds witnesses and provides background checks for better pay and little use of his trusty Glock.But then hes hired to protect sultry young blues singer Indigo Waters from her stalker ex-boyfriend-a hotheaded cop and the mayors bodyguard. After a very public altercation the ex-boyfriends body is found bludgeoned in a city park and Rimes wakes up as the prime suspect and tagged cop killer. Determined to prove his innocence he begins his own hunt to expose the truth. What he uncovers is a vast plot involving city leaders a sinister drug lord corrupt cops and a dark family secret that someone will do anything to keep hidden regardless of who they have to kill.Rimes must tap into his former training and survival instincts. Its personal now and the one thing you dont do is threaten those he loves. . . .A compulsive series from Edgar Award-winning author Gary Earl Ross.