Murder Down The Line: A Smiley and McBlythe Mystery

Some cases never close. Some debts never die.

When his former homicide partner reaches out, blind PI Steve Smiley knows it's bad. Leo's been handed an eighty-year-old murder—no living witnesses, no fresh evidence, no leads—solve it or face forced retirement. For a cop who's given everything to the job, it's a death sentence.

Smiley builds the case the only way he knows how: working sources, cross-checking old testimony, and trusting instincts sharpened on Houston's homicide floor. At his side...