The Houseboat Detective

<p><em><strong>A good detective has an analytic mind loves to solve puzzles is driven to know the answers - oh and he might play piano.</strong></em><br><br>Twenty-something Jake Sommers lives in a houseboat moored at Fisherman's Wharf a picturesque set of docks bordering the Inner Harbour of Victoria BC. Jake inherited his craft the Honeysuckle Rose from his late Great-aunt Dierdre once a successful artist and sixties flower child. Jake's a bit of a lost soul who plays piano in a bar loves the jazz music of the 1920s and '30s and has a tendency to drink too much.<br><br>When a beautiful woman shows up at his floating home mistakenly believing Jake is a qualified and experienced private investigator and begging to hire him for a case the little voice in Jake's head tells him he should turn down the offer.<br><br>Too bad he never listens to his little voice.<br><br>He expects his 'investigation' to be a straightforward search for a young woman on the Internet. But both his client and her case turn out to be far more than he bargained for and he's unwittingly plunged into a convoluted world of DNA ancestry danger intrigue and murder.</p>