Long Time Gone - Gregory Stout

Nashville PI Jackson Gamble had worked for bail-bonder Fat Wally before. And he'd rounded up Tommy Mack before. So, Gamble figured, it would be a cinch to round him up again. But that's not quite how things go this time around. Then, in the midst of Gamble's lackadaisical search for Tommy Mack, a beautiful woman who smells of irises walks into his office and asks him to find her professor husband, four years disappeared. Gamble takes the case, unaware that he is about to step into a deadly quagmire of crime culled from every level of society. Peeling the skin off secrets one by one, Gamble shows the reader where petty criminals, academic life, lost husbands, lawyers, big crime, and, sadly, the death of innocents all meet.