Deadbeat

Lisa Jones, a beautiful young woman with a Caribbean accent, asks private investigator, Frank Taylor, to locate her missing brother. Without officially taking the case, Frank soon finds himself peeling through layers of fraud, lies and deceit. Before he can locate the missing brother, the man turns up murdered in a hotel room, which just happens to be registered to none other than Lisa Jones. Suddenly, Lisa is nowhere to be found, and several shadowy characters are trying to put Frank in the hospital. That's when the police get involved. That's also when Frank finds out that the dead man wasn't Lisa's brother at all. Set in New York City, Deadbeat is a fast-paced, hard-boiled thriller in the tradition of Raymond Chandler. A tightly woven page-turner from a fresh new talent.