A New York Times Book of the Year, Nero Wolfe Award winner, Edgar Award finalist, Shamus Award finalist, Anthony Award finalist, named by the Independent Mystery booksellers Association as one of the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century

This beloved, comedy-noir thriller teams up Leo Bloodworth, a hard-drinking, middle-aged Los Angeles PI with hypertension and a low tolerance for precious teenagers, with Serendipity Dahlquist, a bright and strong-willed roller-blading 14-year-old searching for her lost dog. But things quickly escalate, plunging the oddest of odd couples into the dark underworld of sunny Southern California and pitting them against one of the biggest, and most brutal, organized crime families in Mexico.