Chasing Smoke

Portland homicide detective Skin Kadash just wants to survive cancer treatment so he can get back to the work he loves. When his partner tries to drag him into an unof¿cial investigation of a series of deaths, he's not interested -- he's dead-dog sick and doesn't need the grief -- until she reveals the victims all suffered from cancer themselves, and all had one thing in common with Skin. His oncologist.

The deaths are all apparent suicides; the police have closed the book on them. Then a my...