"SAM WIEBE IS GOING TO BE BECOME A MODERN MASTER OF NOIR." --Andrew Gulli, Strand Magazine "WIEBE CONVINCINGLY BRINGS RAYMOND CHANDLER INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY." --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "PACKED WITH THEFT, GANGS, DOUBLE CROSSES, MURDER, AND SUSPENSE THAT WILL KEEP YOU ON EDGE RIGHT UP TO THE END." --5-Star Reader Review Sam Wiebe returns with PI Dave Wakeland's latest missing-persons case, a strange investigation that quickly becomes a fight for survival. No one knows what happened to Tabitha Sorenson, a brilliant but troubled college student who vanished in the aftermath of a scandal involving millions of dollars in school funds. Hired to find the missing young woman by her professor (and admirer) Dana Essex, private investigator Dave Wakeland is tossed into a world of suburban gangsters, corrupt authorities, and a contract killer with an unhealthy fondness for blades--all of them ready to guard their secrets at any cost. When the investigation takes a deadly turn, the young PI crosses borders--and lines--in his hunt for a sadistic killer, a journey of discovery that takes him from the back alleys of a rapidly modernizing Vancouver to the wilds of Washington State to a disorienting suburban sprawl, where nothing is as it seems.

Author Biography

Sam Wiebe is the author of Invisible Dead, the critically acclaimed first novel in the Wakeland series, as well as the stand-alone debut Last of the Independents. His work has won an Arthur Ellis Award and the Kobo Emerging Writers Prize, been nominated for a Shamus award, and been shortlisted for the City of Vancouver Book Award.