"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 person 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.