Invisible Dead
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4.0 • 4 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
"WITTY, SMART, DETAILED, AND HIGHLY ENTERTAINING." --STEVE BERRY
"SHARP AND TERRIFIC." --THE VANCOUVER SUN
"A MUST-READ FOR FANS OF NOIR." --5-STAR READER REVIEW
A gritty private-eye series begins on the streets of Vancouver, featuring an ex-cop with a moral compass stubbornly jammed at true north.
When PI Dave Wakeland is hired by a terminally ill woman to discover the whereabouts of her adopted child, who disappeared as an adult more than a decade earlier, it seems like just another in a string of poor career decisions.
Wakeland is a talented private investigator with next to zero business sense. And even though he finds himself with a fancy new office and a corporate-minded partner, he continues to be drawn to cases that are usually impossible to solve and frequently don't pay.
But it turns out this case is worse than usual, even by his standards. An anonymous tip leads Wakeland to an imprisoned serial killer who steers him toward Vancouver's terrifying criminal underworld. With nothing to protect him but his wit and his empathy for the downtrodden and disenfranchised, Wakeland is on the case.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Canadian author Wiebe's desultory second novel and series launch (after 2014's Last of the Independents) introduces Vancouver cop-turned-PI Dave Wakeland. Gail Kirby, who's dying, hires Wakeland to find out what happened to her drug-addicted adopted daughter, Chelsea Loam, who disappeared more than a decade earlier at age 24. But no sooner does Wakeland start digging than it becomes clear that there are dangerous players among them, the head of the notorious Exiles motorcycle gang who want Chelsea's fate to remain a closed book. Given the detective's strong white knight streak, nothing could spur him on more, especially once his path crosses that of childhood crush Shay Nelson, a stripper whose escalating drug habit threatens to send her down the same rabbit hole as Chelsea. Despite the enigmatic, intriguing tough guy at its center and gritty local color, the novel's haphazard plotting and efforts to deliver a message about Vancouver's vulnerable female sex workers, particularly Native ones, blunt the overall impact.
