Joe Singleton's back, this time in a place
suspiciously like Durham, North Carolina, and the years have been anything
but kind to him. As the story starts, "It was late Saturday afternoon in
late April in the last decade of what might as well be the last century..."
Joe's fed up with is life and decides to drop out and sever all his
relationships. To survive he squats in a dusty abandoned office in the
tobacco warehouse district and sets up Dixie Detective Agency. What follows
is murder, mayhem, and mystery, with hushpuppies, grits and ice tea along
the way. Joe stumbles into corruption in high and low places, and is forced
to confront the very problems he was trying so hard to escape."