Wading Into War: A Detective Benjamin Wade Mystery - Detective Benjamin Wade, #1

When bullets burst through a door, unarmed gumshoe Benjamin Wade knows two things: his case just got a hell of a lot more difficult. And duck!The smoke clears, the shooter escapes, and Wade finds a corpse. It's the reporter he was hired to find. His client would not be happy. Beguiling and enigmatic Lillian Saxton hired Wade to locate the missing reporter who claimed to possess information she craved: whether or not her brother had died in Europe during the early days of World War II.
The reporter vanished soon after his ship docked in Houston and she's desperate. Wade, a laid back former cop, accepts cases so mundane he rarely carries a gun. Now, Wade must unravel the truth about the reporter's murder and the cache of missing documents that reveal a shocking story from Nazi-controlled Europe and an even more sinister secret on the home front.