From innovative bestselling novelist Walter Mosley comes the return of Leonid McGill: a morally ambiguous P.I. whose clients are society’s most downtrodden.Leonid McGill’s has spent a lifetime building his reputation as a private investigator in New York. His seemingly infallible instincts and his inside knowledge of the crime world make him the ideal man to help when Phillip “Catfish” Worry comes knocking.Catfish is a ninety-four-year-old Mississippi bluesman who needs Leonid’s help with a simple task: deliver a letter revealing the black lineage of a wealthy heiress and her corrupt father. The opportunity to do a simple favor while shocking the prevailing elite is impossible for Leonid to resist.But when a famed and feared assassin puts out a hit on Catfish, Leonid has no choice but to confront the ghost of his own felonious past. Working to protect his client, and his own family, Leonid needs to reach the heiress on the eve of her wedding before her powerful father kills those who hold their family’s secret.Joined by a team of young and tough a spring investigators, Leonid must gain the trust of wary socialites, outsmart vengeful thugs, and, above all, serve the truth — no matter the cost.