Blood and Mascara

Washington, DC, 1997:
A city stumbling toward recovery after a decade of violence, drugs, AIDS, and exodus. Bronze Goldberg—a soft-boiled private detective in a hard-boiled world—scrapes out a living stalking the steps of cheating spouses. But his latest assignment has entangled him in the murder of an up-and-coming congressman and made him the target of an unstoppable assassin.