"Belief's a luxury. Proof keeps you alive."When the faces in a stranger's manga match the ones in his nightmares, private investigator Neil Ames knows the past hasn't stayed buried—it's been drawn in ink.Emily Granger was murdered twenty years ago. Or so the official story says.Now, a decorated homicide detective is dead. His final message is addressed to Neil.A second autopsy. A forged death certificate.A case once thought ...

A Father Revealed. Avant-Garde Jazz. And Nanobot Murder Suspects.Private investigator Neil Ames returns to the smoke-infused Pacific Northwest from a hazardous investigation in Kazakhstan only to find his trusted confidante, Octavia Clarke, shattered. Her mother has died. But just as she braces herself for the funeral in New Orleans, a shocking email drops a bombshell—Octavia's biological father is none other than Bastien Beaulieu, a legendary jazz composer and nan...