Death in Uptown: A Paul Whelan Mystery

Death in Uptown is the first book in Michael Raleigh's widely praised Paul Whelan series. In this novel, a killer is loose in Chicago's colorful and racially-diverse Uptown neighborhood, and Paul Whelan finds himself drawn in for personal reasons. His search for the killer is complicated by the arrival of a client, an attractive young woman seeking her lost brother, and Whelan soon realizes that the woman's brother is somehow involved in his search, a search which does not end till five men are dead.