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As ever, Leonid McGill’s life can’t stop getting more complicated. His favorite son Twill has dropped out of high school to pursue some mysteriously lucrative opportunities; his best friend Gordo has been diagnosed with cancer and is living in Leonid’s living room; his wife had taken a new lover, infuriating the old one and endangering the McGill family; and Leonid’s girlfriend, Aura, is back but intent on some serious conversations. And in the meantime, the economy has hit the Private Investigator business hard, and Leonid is only getting work from the thugs and deadbeats he’s worked so hard to leave behind. Until, of course, a beautiful young woman walks into his office with a stack of cash. She’s an artist, she says, who’s made her way from poverty in Flatbush to her current marriage to a rich collector who keeps her on a small stipend—supplemented by deluxe accoutrements like the rare diamond necklace around her neck. But she says she’s in fear for her life, and needs Leonid’s help. Leonid’s been in this business long enough to know he’s not getting the straight story, but a pile of cash from a gorgeous client isn’t something he can afford to resist. But straightening out her crooked tale is going to bring Leonid right to death’s door—that is if his own family’s unconventional misadventures don’t kill him first.