Jack Kelly sets his new novel in Rochester, New York, circa 1959. Kelly's Rochester is a dark and glamorous place, not unlike Los Angeles in the forties - filled with dapper mobsters and slightly dangerous, mysterious women. Rochester is home to, among others, gangsters, a dead heiress, and a savvy private detective named Ike Van Savage, a man who says about himself: "Some people want their lives predictable. You go to work, come home, no surprises...I wasn't like that...I needed creeps pawing teenagers and gangsters torching houses and mystery women cooing danger over the phone." Enter a beautiful mystery woman in the flesh, the wife of a notorious local gangster, who believes her husband is out to kill her. Van Savage takes on the case despite its dangers - perhaps even because of them - and finds himself drawn into a dark world of seduction, suspicion, and violence. Read Less