Retired from the LAPD, Sid and Ronnie Abel are a first-rate husband-and-wife detective team, who don't have much in common with Ed and Nicole Hoyt, married assassins-for-hire living in the San Fernando Valley—until they are both hired to do damage control on the same murder case. After a research scientist's body is found, his former employers bring in the Abels to succeed where the police have failed, while the Hoyts' mysterious contractors want to make sure that the facts about this death stay hidden.

"Propulsive, darkly humorous…. As the likable, series-worthy Abels struggle to survive at least long enough to solve [the] murder, Perry tosses in several hairpin plot twists that culminate in a satisfyingly surprising conclusion."—Publishers Weekly