Sean Van Damme

Calvin Hobbs is a cantankerous retired Richmond Police officer who runs a small Private Investigative service, comprising of himself, and himself, having alienated just about everybody in his life over the years. Hobbs will take just about any case, a policy that has got him into trouble before and continues to do so.
Hobbs has been contracted by the disowned son of a local Mob boss to steal a copy of his father’s will. Seeing as how the old man was already dead, Hobbs didn’t know how it would help the young doctor and he didn’t ask. Questions always led to trouble, and this case was trouble.
Hobbs doesn’t know just how much until the bodies start to pile up and the twists and turns threaten to become more then he can work his way out of, as shifty women, backstabbing friends and government agents start to come out of the woodwork.
Killing to Know is a hard-boiled thriller set in a gritty version of Richmond Virginia and the first of the Calvin Hobbs series of mysteries.

And when you are done check out Hobbs next case with Bodies Under 95 (Calvin Hobbs #2)

The second edition of Killing to Know is the same book plot-wise the only changes that have been made were ones that addressed grammar and spelling.