The Man Who Hated Clouds

Private investigator Ben Ames is supposed to be on vacation. Hes followed his rock star boyfriend, Jesse, to the Edmonton Folk Festival, where Jess is doing an acoustic set with friends and having a boozy sulk about his changing image. Neither is there to solve a crime, but theyre offered a case anyway, when the festival headliner hires them to help his author friend Charlie. Charlies latest manuscript is missing. A normal guy would have backups, but Charlies an internet-hating conspiracy theorist who saved his work to a laptop flash drive, and now the drive and the computer are gone. Ben thinks the case is impossible, but Jess could use a distraction, so they pay a visit to Charlies river valley homewhere Charlie tells them he knows who took the book, hes not telling, and a detective cant help. Good day. Theyre still in Edmonton, enjoying a lazy summer day, when word comes that Charlies been murdered. Back on the case and without suspects or a motive, Ben knows the answers are in that missing book. He just needs to do the impossible and find it.