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CLOSED FILE
The state case is closed. The machine is convicted. The file is supposed to be shut.
It isn't.
When a sealed mine shaft in the California foothills is broken into — a gate lock cut, fresh tire tracks in the dirt — private investigator Doc finds himself back in gold country with a federal warrant, an FBI agent, and twenty-four locked filing cabinets that contain everything a decades-long criminal enterprise was never supposed to let see daylight.
Congressman Lyle is still in Washington. The federal trial is building. And someone got to the mine before the FBI did.
Closed File is the fifth book in the Doc Mysteries — a hard-boiled series set in 1970s Los Angeles, where the corruption runs deep, the pho is perfect, and the only car Doc trusts starts on the second try.
With Detective Ray Fuentes watching his back, Diana moving in above the restaurant, and Mrs. Phan dispensing wisdom through a very thin floor, Doc follows the evidence from Fairfax Avenue to the Sierra foothills — because a man who thinks a file is closed has never met a mine with another room.
Perfect for fans of hard-boiled detective fiction, 1970s noir, and institutional crime thrillers.
It isn't.
When a sealed mine shaft in the California foothills is broken into — a gate lock cut, fresh tire tracks in the dirt — private investigator Doc finds himself back in gold country with a federal warrant, an FBI agent, and twenty-four locked filing cabinets that contain everything a decades-long criminal enterprise was never supposed to let see daylight.
Congressman Lyle is still in Washington. The federal trial is building. And someone got to the mine before the FBI did.
Closed File is the fifth book in the Doc Mysteries — a hard-boiled series set in 1970s Los Angeles, where the corruption runs deep, the pho is perfect, and the only car Doc trusts starts on the second try.
With Detective Ray Fuentes watching his back, Diana moving in above the restaurant, and Mrs. Phan dispensing wisdom through a very thin floor, Doc follows the evidence from Fairfax Avenue to the Sierra foothills — because a man who thinks a file is closed has never met a mine with another room.
Perfect for fans of hard-boiled detective fiction, 1970s noir, and institutional crime thrillers.
98 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 19, 2026
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