The Dyeing Process

Murder is visceral and viscous...Like dye to cloth...It changes you...Sticks to you...It won't let you go. Private investigator Neil Ames knows that better than anyone. Twenty years after the murder of his fiancée, Emily Granger-and the war that left him fractured-he survives on routine: he sketches to quiet the noise, quotes Sherlock Holmes to impose order on chaos, and dismantles corporate corruption in the rain-soaked Pacific Northwest.

When investigative reporter Katherine Sterling, Emil...