A Perfect Act

 

Author: James Mallory

Release Date: November 2025

Description:

 

Alonzo Probe is a private investigator operating in a world of hard-edged, cynical characters in mid-1970s Detroit. Probe deals with issues of loyalty, trust, betrayal, and murder while pushing to find the killer of his childhood friend.

 

He returned home from Vietnam to find his childhood friend, Black militant Larry Cooke murdered. Probe buried his friend and moved on until five years later when rumors started that Cooke was an FBI informant. Goaded by an old acquaintance and feeling guilty for not having his friend’s back, Probe, now a tenacious private investigator, is determined to clear his friend’s name.

 

A Perfect Act is a mystery thriller novel from author James Mallory.