In a city that never quite dries from the rain, Trace Murphy makes a living taking the cases other people would rather leave buried.

He works out of a small private office and takes whatever comes through the door—missing persons, blackmail, suspicious deaths, cheating spouses, stolen property, and jobs where the client is clearly holding something back. Murphy isn’t a cop, and he has no badge to open doors for him. He gets answers the slower way: asking questions, following people, checking stories, sitting in parked cars too long, and knowing when someone is lying.

The cases rarely stay simple. A routine surveillance job can lead to corruption. A missing person can uncover a second life. A client asking for discretion may be hiding the most important part of the story. Murphy follows the trail wherever it goes, even when powerful people would prefer he stopped asking questions.

Trace Murphy is a hard-boiled noir detective series about crime, deception, dangerous clients, bad decisions, and a private investigator stubborn enough to keep digging until the pieces fit.

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