The Big Hurt

It's 1955 in Montreal when the door to private investigator Eddie Wade's office swings open to reveal a beautiful, wealthy woman desperate to find her no-good rat of a husband who skipped out on her, taking ten thousand dollars in cash and all her jewels with him. Even though a little voice inside is telling Eddie to back away, he takes Chanel Steele's case without any idea his life is about to change.

As the case moves forward, Eddie encounters the unexpected, spinning him in a hellish nightmare of deadly lies. Things are never as they seem. A routine missing person's investigation suddenly turns into a case of multiple murders. Uncertainty masquerades as smugness-madness as the familiar. One by one, Eddie begins to unmask those caught in a treacherous web of insanity only to discover that someone has been playing him. But will he be able to solve the case before the killer strikes again? As the case comes to a head, Eddie uncovers a dark past, and the world is suddenly turned upside down. Eddie himself is left hanging off a cliff.

In this exciting murder mystery fueled by suspicion and revenge, Eddie Wade embarks on a determined quest for justice. But does he find the justice he's seeking, or the kind he's doomed to endure? Either way, his life will never be the same.