Not Sleeping, Just Dead

The sequel to the novel hailed as "...the next best thing to finding a new and unsuspected Raymond Chandler phantasmagoria" (The New Yorker), this hard boiled mystery for fans of John D. MacDonald and Robert Parker might put Joe Goodey to sleep - permanently. She was rich, young and pretty—so why did Katie Pierce jump? Unless she didn't. Former San Francisco detective turned private investigator Joe Goodey is broke and needs a case. When a wealthy man shows up at Goodey's local watering hole and cuts him a check on the spot to investigate his wealthy niece's alleged suicide, Goodey immediately shuttles off to the scene of the crime: a mansion housing a local cult called The Institute. To find the killer and uncover the truth about Katie Pierce's death, Goodey must infiltrate The Institute's ranks. But as the investigation twists and turns through the mansion's labyrinthine halls, Goodey finds that the murderer might not even be the most dangerous person in the group. Not Sleeping, Just Dead is the second book in the Joe Goodey hard boiled murder mystery series.