The Painted Gun

A washed-up ex-journalist looking for a missing girl in San Francisco is framed by a Guatemalan hit man for a series of murders.

“Treasure the intriguing mystery and its haunting solution.” —Booklist

“A classic noir . . . Spinelli manages to keep us on our toes.” —Pif Magazine

It’s 1997 at the dawn of the digital age in San Francisco. Ex-journalist and struggling alcoholic David “Itchy” Crane’s fledgling “information consultancy” business is getting slowly buried by bad luck, bad decisions, an...