Gunmetal blue, paperback/joseph g. peterson

Detective Art Topp has a wife.

or rather, had a wife.

Its really hard to tell.

On one hand, he talks to her every day, and she talks back.

On the other, hes still in shock from the day he walked into his Triple A Detective AAAgency office and found her lifeless body riddled with bullets, the catastrophic blowback from what should have been a simple investigation.

Now hes promised his daughter hes going to figure out what happened.

The only problem is, hes not much of a detective--just a washed-up middle-aged former telecom worker who went to the gun range too often, watched too many episodes of The Rockford Files , and suddenly decided itd be fun to be a private eye.

Or maybe theres another problem--he also knows it might have been his fault.

And the cops are starting to wonder, too.

Gunmetal Blue showcases Joseph G.

Peterson at his inimitable best.

Its delightfully absurd and horrifyingly plausible, a sad and funny look at what happens when our airy fantasies become gritty reality, and when that reality in turn falls apart into madness and nightmares.