The Hours of the Virgin (The Amos Walker Series #14)

Detroit is no place for virgins, or gentlemen. Walker, who is neither, follows the 50-year-old trail of a stolen manuscript across the bleak landscape of a dead city, coming face to face with the man who murdered his partner 20 years ago. PI Amos Walker of Detroit is hired to recover an illuminated medieval manuscript which was stolen for ransom. The assignment leads to information on the murder, twenty years earlier, of his partner and he reopens a probe Detroit is no place for virgins, or gentlemen. Walker, who is neither, follows the 50-year-old trail of a stolen illuminated manuscript across the bleak landscape of a dead city.