Showing Moonchild's Sins (P.I. Potter #1) by Darren Sant

Kicked onto the scrapheap by the local tyre factory in Stoke, Potter decides to use his redundancy pay to set up as a private investigator. Opportunity comes knocking in the form of flame-haired femme fatale Moonchild Burgess, a victim of blackmail, and she is soon followed into Potter's office by a concerned father wondering just what his suddenly affluent teenage daughter is getting up to …
With the rent overdue and his pockets empty, the pressure is on – but do the cases on the books offer a lifeline, or have years of reading Chandler novels left Potter deluded? Find out, as P.I. Potter's skills and ingenuity are tested to the limit in 'Moonchild's Sins', the first in the P.I. Potter series of novellas from Darren Sant.