The Long Dark Tunnel

San Francisco, 1934. A nun hires a private detective to audit a charity's books — because they are perfect, and she trusts nothing less than a perfect set of books.

Dixon Hill takes the job for fifty dollars and finds the flaw isn't in the numbers. It's in what the numbers don't say: a longshoremen's strike, a schedule of condemned lots sold in a week nobody was meant to read, and a Hungarian who died in a tunnel with a torn page in his pocket.

Hill can find what men leave behind. He can't stop what he finds from going back to the people who buried it. And the deeper he reads, the closer he gets to a name over a door on California Street that the whole city has agreed not to see.

Book 1 of seven. A city that keeps its own books.