Fatal Conceit

A cold-case homicide winds through a trail of murders to an international drug and money-laundering conspiracy.

A new PI joins an eminent list, bursting with humor, pugnacity, and a leaky moral code, bent on one-upping San Francisco's finest while wooing a prosecutor turned lover. A talented investigator, Beaupre muddles through his own hubris and missteps, leaving a trail of bodies and recrimination. Booted from the police force—for knocking a skinhead comatose and allegedly battering a gir...