An Aubrey Greigh Mystery

One steamy summer a few years from now stinks of blood and greed. Crime in the giant Chicago regionplex climbs to an unprecedented high. Homicides top the list. Detective Chance McQuillan negotiates for the case’s lead. She recruits a reluctant Aubrey Greigh, a civilian who also lives at The Lit, to consult when the case stalls. Immediately, powerful forces sabotage their case. Greigh, a mystery writer, recognizes this case for what it is—the linchpin to a sordid conspiracy with a goal that eclipses the evidence and their collective imagination.

Studio executives & politicians in Chicagoland — “Hollywood 2.0” — demand answers as the investigation flounders. At first, Chicago Police Captain Lois Granger believes this is just another nasty serial homicide case complicated by the wild imagination of her pain-in-the-neck suspended Detective Chance McQuillan, a.k.a. McQ, and celebrity Scottish mystery author, a self-styled amateur sleuth, Aubrey Greigh.

Aubrey Greigh, a best-selling mystery author, partners with an ambitious Chicago detective who is now also his wife, an ex-mob boss gone straight, and a pair of Romani parapsychologists (psychics with psychology degrees) to solve a pair of baffling high-profile homicides. This cryptic case will turn the politics of America’s largest city on its ear. Is our impromptu team of professional and amateur investigators equipped to filter fact from rampant fantasy to stop the seemingly senseless slaughter? Chicago's mayor hopes so. Or does he? Is anything or anyone who or what they seem?