Death in Uptown by Michael Raleigh (
SYKM) is the 1st in his Paul Whelan mystery series starring the eponymous Chicago ex-cop turned PI, this installment pitting him vs a killer that murdered one of his friends and may be responsible for another case brought to him by a client, as well as escalating with even more murders, free courtesy of publisher Diversion Books, who are e-printing it from its 1991 St. Martin's Press edition.
Currently free @
Amazon (available to Canadians & in the
UK) &
iTunes (available to Canadians and generally most places worldwide when I spot-check, as Diversion freebies often are).
Description
A killer terrorizes Chicago’s diverse Uptown neighborhood. Private investigator Paul Whelan’s specialty is tracking down missing persons, but when his good friend is found slain in an alley, Whelan is steered down a path of violence as he searches for answers.
His investigation is interrupted by the arrival of an attractive young woman, Jean Agee, who is on her own search for her missing brother. But as clues lead Whelan to believe the two cases may be connected, the body count rises quickly, and he finds himself racing to catch a killer before he strikes again.