The Wrong Man

by Chris Porter

The human settlers of Reafel, a world many light years distant from Earth, are just beginning to recover from a War which raged for over a hundred years across much of the planet, and ended not quite six years ago! As veterans now separated from military service return home, they increasingly find that jobs are scarce, good jobs are scarcer, and crime is on the rise! Private Investigator Alec Blackwell is one of those veterans, having chosen "less traditional" employment, rather than scrabble for what jobs there are, but he's got his own problems! The house he just bought is haunted, his office is no-where near the more fashionable parts of town, located between a strip club and a brothel, and both his clients and the girls who wander up from the club to hone their provacative banter and teasing invitations on him between sets all have their own ideas regarding exactly what the duties of a "Private Investigator" really are, or should be! Now he's been hired by a greaving daughter who's not satisfied with the official police report regarding her father's death, and wants to know who killed him, and why, but dad was found shot in an alley behind a busy downtown club, and his wallet was missing! It's not hard to see why the police shelved the case unsolved, nor why Alec is wondering if the War was really so bad, after all!

517 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 8, 2019

Reviews

[AshleySparx · Rating 5 out of 5]

Private dick solves knotty problems.

Great light reading, when you're in the mood for a romp.
Alec is a private detective with just a few secret tricks up his...sleeves?
A cross genre offering that deftly mixes a wide variety of interests, clearly demonstrating that all is never as it seems.