Former NHL teammate Bobby Ehle hires Hayden Fuller to investigate the brutal murder of his ex-wife. Chances are Ehle, who has a history of domestic violence, may have done it. Fuller's investigation drops him into a world of domestic terrorism (a revolutionary group, N'oublie jamais, plans to ruin Expo 67), psychedelic drugs (Blue 27 and Red 45) that can drastically change people's personalities, and faux doctors with their hydrotherapy treatments and plastic surgery services. His quest takes an inner turn as Fuller confronts his own personal trauma and troubled past. On top of all this he reconnects with his ex, Stana Younger. Together, can they solve one murder and prevent several more? This hardcover Collector's Edition includes color on the interior pages.
"The arm circled left, back right, and then hit the vinyl groove with a carbonated hiss and pop." The second Hayden Fuller mystery by Grant Tracey has a rhythm and clip like Charlie Parker's "Bird Gets the Worm," prose akin to a sawed-off saxophone scatter-gun, hard-boiled until the rim-shot bird-shot peppers the vulnerable softness of his characters, doing their best to improvise in a 340 BPM world.