When
Sanjay Mann got into the business 3 years
ago, he never really expected it to actually succeed as a sustainable venture:
As far as he saw it at the time, striking out as a P.I. basically just
constituted a relatively painless way to continue ignoring the perilously
impending call of real life for another couple of months. At least so far,
though, he’s always managed to sneak that one last job just when it seems he’s
on the brink, contenting himself with the usual P.I. fodder a limited pool of
competition affords him, and the fact
that, at least most days, the work is as tolerable as any job. And while he may
concede that the cavalier over-specificity of his self-appointed title as the “Dinosaur
Detective,” a nod to his first case and his idea of a bad joke, sees him his
fair share of curious drunk college students, he’s also found it has the benefit
of peaking potential clients’ interest enough to push them through the door.
When
Officer Sofia Fortuna comes knocking one brisk autumn evening with a cagey
mystery of an assignment, though, it might also get him a lot more than he bargained
for...
