Sea of Cortez : A Novel

A different kind of detective... A different kind of mystery... An old, old kind of love affair...Moving in on fifty, fearful of losing his edge, and traumatized by a fatal car crash, private detective F.X. McDonough takes a supposedly safe missing-persons job he hopes will get him back on an even keel. But that is not to be. Hired to find the rejected mixed-blood heir of a bigoted Santa Barbara patriarch, he is soon immersed in the illegal Hispanic world of Southwestern USA and Baja California--a world that he, product of a Boston Irish slum, experiences as elusive and unsettling. Murder present and murder past surface, and McDonough finds himself reluctantly falling headlong for the patriarch's beautiful and enigmatic daughter-in-law--who seems far more involved in these events than she should be.