Detective P.T. Marsh has been on a downward spiral since the deaths of his wife and son, mostly drinking his life away. Now he may have killed someone... He's just not sure because he can't remember much from the night before, only that he helped an exotic dancer by beating up her boyfriend. Now the boyfriend is dead and Marsh's fingerprints are all over the crime scene. And, it keeps getting worse - the murdered man may be the lead suspect in the case of a lynching of a young black boy...

This is one hell of a book. It's not often I read books where the main character gets called to a murder scene only for him to realize that he may be the one who did the deed... P.T. Marsh quickly climbed the top of my list of favorite characters. He and his dog Purvis, who Marsh can "hear" berating or warning him, were a delight to read about. Marsh hasn't been well since he lost his family, and the situation in this book is miserable and can only get worse. But he's also the kind of guy that, despite everything, will try to solve the case of the lynched boy. Not to mention figure out if he killed a man or not. Additionally, the story seems to lean slightly into the paranormal realm; nothing too weird or over the top, but things occur that make you wonder, and that made me like the story even more.

THE GOOD DETECTIVE is the first book about Detective P.T. Marsh, but I already long for more books. I found the story to be engrossing and addictive. I just love a truly well- written Southern crime story.