Things hadn't been going well for Charlie Miner. His work as a private investigator involved him with an endless roster of shady characters. His ex-wife was borderline crazy. And he wasn't getting to spend anywhere near enough time with his teenaged daughter Mindy, the one person in his life who truly mattered to him.When he woke up on a slab in the morgue with a hole in his head, though, things got exponentially worse.Just before the shooting, Charlie had been investigating a case involving fraud, gold, religious zealots, and a gorgeous woman who seemed to be at the center of everything. Even with a fatal bullet wound, Charlie could connect the dots from the case to his attack. And when his daughter is abducted by someone involved, the stakes get exponentially higher. Charlie needs to find Mindy before the criminals do the same thing to her that they did to him.After that, maybe he'll try to figure out how he's walking around dead.Irreverent, circuitous, and surprisingly touching, Down Solo introduces a crisp new voice to suspense fiction.