Rambling reader

Noah Braddock is a private investigator in San Diego. He isn't a typical PI. He's a surfer dude. Noah worked for an insurance company doing investigative work and when he had the required time in, he got his license and went out on his own.

Noah is approached by the mother of an ex-girlfriend who is missing. She wants Noah to look for her daughter. Noah has no trouble finding Kate decomposing in the trunk of her car but now the parents want him to figure out what happened to her.

Noah is warned off by a major drug lord and the police but memories of Kate keep him looking for her killer. Even when he keeps hearing that she wasn't the woman he remembered, that she had gotten mixed up in some illegal activities, he has to keep going.

Assisting Noah is his good friend Carter Hamm. Carter is a little scary with even scarier friends. Both Noah and Carter are a little snarky which adds humor in all the right places.

The lead detective on the case is another old girlfriend of Noah's and now Kate's sister is interested in starting something with him.

This is a quick, fun read. I finished it in one sitting. Jeff Shelby's second Noah Braddock novel just came out this month. I'll be picking it up real soon.