Hunting Sweetie Rose Author:Jake Fredrickson He's not an ex-cop or private investigator. Still Dek Elstrom has a knack for solving Chicago's most oddball cases. They help him forget his shattered life & many losses, at least for a little while. But now an anonymous client wants to know why an innocent clown fell to his death doing a promo stunt. When Dek figures out wealthy socialite Sweet... more »ie Fairbairn is his employer, his attempt to get answers results in her bodyguard being murdered. Then Sweetie vanishes & Dek is on the hook for both crimes. The only way to clear his name is to locate Sweetie. But Dek soon finds the murky trail of her past entangling him in a decades-old unsolved crime, a twisted family tree, & a grim legacy of abuse & hatred. And as the body count & number of suspects snowball, Dek must risk his darkest secrets to crack the case-even as he puts his life & future on the line.« less