Investigating the death of a woman that has been ruled accidental by the police but that her sister insists was a murder by a known perpetrator, a reluctant Nameless begins to suspect that the victim's sister is telling the truth when he learns unsettling facts about her life.

Nameless is back, and Pronzini's much-praised "Bleeders" did not conclude a series that "Booklist" calls a stunning and unique achievement in crime fiction and one of the greatest-ever detective series. Instead "Spook, " takes his seasoned private-eye hero to a new phase of a still-evolving 30-year career.

For the firm of Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services, stopping extortionists is not only grand, but excitingly lucrative.When a pleasant afternoon's bicycling through Golden Gate Park with a friend ends with the revelation of threatening letters, followed by a gunshot in a mansion garden, Sabina Carpenter knows this is a case that demands her immediate and undivided attention.The questions her partner John Quincannon has to unravel...