The Wrong Man in Blood: A Toby Dunbar Mystery (Book 1 of 3)

A man is found alive in blood that should have condemned him.

When Hobo is discovered in the aftermath of a brutal killing, the case looks simple enough for the street and the police to agree: the wrong man is standing in the middle of a room full of dead men.

But Toby Dunbar knows simple stories can be dangerous.

Picasso is dead. So are the men around him. Hobo is alive, wounded, and trapped inside a crime scene that seems designed to make him look guilty. As Detectives Danner and Mason press toward an answer, Toby starts pulling at the pieces that do not fit: the blood, the timing, the old grudges, and the way fear moves when somebody wants the world to believe the first version.

In Chicago, loyalty can save a man.

It can also bury him deeper.

To clear Hobo, Toby must follow a trail built from street pressure, old wounds, and dangerous silence. But the closer he gets to the truth, the more one question begins to matter:

If Hobo is the wrong man in blood, who was the right one?

The Wrong Man in Blood is the first book in The Picasso Murders, a gritty Toby Dunbar mystery about loyalty, violence, and the first lie a crime scene tells.