Author Description

Art and artifice, fakes and facades, pretenders without and within. After months of nothing, insecure sleuth Tony Flaner gets four cases in one night. Two of them are paying, a background check and a missing person. One is for family pride, the other is personal, because Tony is taking everything personally. A rival detective is talking smack and taking all the work. A looming high school reunion promises disaster, exposure, and maybe the loss of his girlfriend. Tony's angsty teenage son is going through phases which may now include crime, but not appreciation of the new fifty-thousand dollar car Tony gave him for Christmas, the first payment of which looms large on Tony's empty bank book. Tony has been successful before, but he'd been lucky, and now the bill comes due. Ain't nothing for it. Tony must face international intrigue, falling fame, angry dogs, and the dreaded-God help him-domestic case, all the while drowning in the mental sludge of imposter-syndrome and the real pollution of the famous Salt Lake City inversion. Even the air isn't real.Actors and agents, hippies and obsessions, a Burmese coup, and the worst song ever from Rogers and Hammerstein test Tony's luck, skill, and patience as he uncovers the Counterfeit Connection.