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Drink the tea / Thomas Kaufman.

by Kaufman, Thomas.

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Minotaur Books, c2010.

Private investigators -- Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction.

Missing persons -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Daughters -- Crimes against -- Fiction.

Corruption -- Fiction.

Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction.

Kaufman, Thomas. Willis Gidney mysteries ; 1.

vii, 294 p. ; 22 cm.

"A Thomas Dunne book for Minotaur Books"--T.p. verso.

"Willis Gidney is a born liar and rip-off artist, an expert at the scam. Growing up without parents or a home, by age twelve he is a successful young man, running his own small empire, until he meets Shadrack Davies. That’s Captain Shadrack Davies, of the D.C. Police. Davies wants to reform Gidney and becomes his foster father. Though he tries not to, Gidney learns a small amount of ethics from Shad---just enough to bother a kid from the streets for the rest of his life. Now Gidney is a PI, walking those same streets. So it's no surprise that when his closest friend, jazz saxophonist Steps Jackson, asks Gidney to find his missing daughter, Gidney is compelled to say yes---even though she's been missing for twenty-five years. He finds a woman who may be the girl’s mother--and within hours she turns up dead. The police accuse Gidney of the murder and throw him in jail. Maybe Gidney should quit while he’s behind. But when his investigation puts him up against a ruthless multinational corporation, a two-faced congressman, and a young woman desperate to conceal her past, Gidney has no time left for second thoughts. In fact, he may have no time left at all."--Inside jacket.

Winner of the PWA Best First Private Eye Novel competition.

Mystery fiction.

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