Welcome to the page for Soft-Boiled Detective novel The Janus Murder by John Nicholas Datesh, from Loiseau Media Development's Anyway Books imprint. 

 The Janus Murder defines a Private Eye sub-genre making Chandler's Marlowe and Block's Scudder look like really smart, really tough guys

Diana Winter begged PI Casey Carmichael to confirm the identity of her father’s murderer. The cops liked Diana's fiancé, Tony, who was recorded killing Diana's father. Carmichael liked Tony, too, but a fee is a fee. So what if a couple stray clues nagged at him. Clues that said the killer wasn't quite that obvious.

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  Very pretty, very rich Diana Winter practically begged Casey Carmichael to find her father’s murderer.  A softball, like no PI ever got. Her very fiancé Tony Hiller had been recorded, over the phone, very much killing her father.  And the fiancé very quickly confessed.

     He had the time and needed the fee. The client had big pleading eyes, a ton of money and needed all the reassurance Carmichael could manage. Throw in Janice Simmons, a stunning reporter glued to the case, if he needed more convincing.
     All he had to do was go through the motions, check the octave of the recorded confession, go to the nearest bank and cash in on Diana's guilt.  So, Carmichael did all the above. It went great. Diana didn’t hate him. Tony didn't hate him. Janice wasn't so sure. But still, nice job. Only, a couple stray observations… okay, call 'em clues… haunted him.
     If errant clues meant Carmichael had misread a murder and if that haunting spoke of death, there was more of both on the way.