Brent Kroetch

The Ghost of Truckee River Brent Kroetch

When rich and eccentric rock legend Blake Garrett offers private detective Kyle "Ham" McCalister an astonishing fee to find his predicted would-be killer, Ham is not even sure he wants the case. His reluctance is based upon Blake's belief in a trusted psychic who predicts that there will be three attempts on his life before the actual assassination occurs. Ham, who has a deep seated distrust of most people and their motives anyway, feels certain that Blake's psychic is a phony, that there is no murder to prevent, and that Blake is even more naive and gullible than he is rich and famous . Once he arrives in Hawaii to meet with the superstar, however, Ham is confronted by madness and murder-and a self-proclaimed ghost who won't leave him alone.

In order to solve the case-whether real or imagined-Ham must overcome his distrust of people and their motives, his would-be cynicism and hard-boiled pessimism, his occasional and very much unwanted flights into Walter Mitty-esque fantasy...and his utter fascination with Blake's free-spirited daughter, Charlie. And that, he discovers, is much, much easier said than done.