Pound of Flesh (Arcane Casebook)

One of the first things a private detective learns is that people have secrets, and people with important secrets attract trouble.

When a young woman is brutally murdered in a back alley, the police quickly turn to Alex Lockerby to help them. Hampered by the fallout from his own secrets, Alex goes to work, only to find that the victim in this case had secrets of her own, starting with her identity. As Alex tries to trace the origins of the mysterious murder victim, a woman comes to his office begging his help because she believes her new house is haunted. With political pressure mounting and the tabloids blaming the police for the lack of progress, Alex finds himself racing against time with two explosive cases threatening to converge.