Gumshoe Rock

USA Today best-selling author

“Mortimer Angel is my favorite private eye.” —John Lescroart, New York Times best-selling author

Embezzlement case turns murderous

Early in July, northern Nevada’s senior Internal Revenue Service agent, Ronald Soranden—disliked by every agent in the Reno IRS office—vanished without a trace. In September, he makes a dramatic reappearance, of sorts. His skull—stripped clean and white—is dropped through the slashed top of a Mustang convertible. The vehicle belongs t...