Pariah

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>New City. New Job. Same broken heart. So much for a leaving it all behind.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A millionaire's missing computer their dead housekeeper and a family secret hidden in plain sight: these are the elements of a most unusual case quite literally handed to Detective Vasily Korsokovach moments after arriving at John Wayne International in Southern California. Put into the awkward position of cleaning up a colleague's sloppy investigation Vasily immediately finds himself on the defensive after he begins asking uncomfortable questions in pursuit of the truth. And when he pulls a thread that inadvertently connects to a decades-old suspicious death that has a personal connection to the department he encounters uncompromising and outdated attitudes in the one place he least expects to find them.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>While he'd hoped for a fresh start this wasn't </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>exactly</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> what he had in mind.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Alone and truly on his own for the first time in years Vasily buries himself in his initial case as lead detective and leans heavily on a new friend - one who he hopes could become something more replacing the ache in his soul that has dogged him since leaving everything he loved behind in Windeport. Broken hearts have a way of blinding one to everything else that is important though and Vasily is no exception to that rule...</span></p><p></p>