Shadow Song

<p><strong>What if the key to solving a murder wasn't a smoking gun but a haunted melody?</strong></p><p></p><p>For disillusioned detective Milo Corrigan the city's song has always been a mournful blues tune played in a minor key. But when the rain-soaked body of famed jazz singer Lena Valente turns up in an alley behind the Blue Vesper jazz club he hears a new discordant note of deceit. The official story is an overdose-a neat tidy lie that everyone especially his superiors wants to believe.</p><p></p><p>But Corrigan sees what the others won't: the signs of a professional hit. Armed with a single piece of blood-stained sheet music and a gut feeling that won't let him go he takes the case against the express orders of the powerful and polished Inspector Victor Harlan a man who prefers his city's secrets to remain buried.</p><p></p><p>His investigation plunges him into a smoky underworld of shifting alliances where loyalty is bought and sold. He must navigate a maze of slippery informants a deadly turf war and the club's enigmatic owner Gia Moretti a woman with secrets as deep as her pockets. The deeper he digs the clearer it becomes that Lena's murder is just the first verse in a symphony of corruption that reaches from the darkest corners of the mob to the highest echelons of the city.</p><p></p><p>Hunted by his own department and the city's most ruthless criminals Corrigan is a lone detective in a world where the truth is the most dangerous secret of all. Can he unravel the notes of this shadow song before he's permanently silenced?</p><p></p><p><strong><em>Shadow Song</em></strong> <strong>is a gripping atmospheric noir thriller that will keep you guessing until the final shattering note. Perfect for fans of Raymond Chandler Michael Connelly and modern hard-boiled detective fiction.</strong></p><p></p>