Bluefin Blues (Aristotle Soc Socarides)

Bluefin Blues (Aristotle Soc Socarides)

Off the coast of Cape Cod, a Japanese bluefin tuna buyer is found dead on another manâ€™s boat, a harpoon shot through his chest. The dead manâ€™s grandfather, a Japanese fishing tycoon, seeks out part-time private investigator Aristotle â€œSocâ€ Socarides to find those responsible for his grandsonâ€™s death. Soc is desirable because heâ€™s also a part-time fisherman; because the man also knows that Soc is deeply in need of funds to repair his dilapidated fishing boat, he knows Socâ€™ll accept. Soc canâ€™t shake an uneasy feeling about the way the old Japanese man found him and the way he persuaded Soc to take the job: â€œIt was almost as if he knew me better than I knew myself.â€ This realization should trigger a warning light in Socâ€™s head. Maybe it does. But now Soc is curious. And he still needs the money. What starts out as a simple inquiry into a young manâ€™s death to secure the peace of mind of an old man mushrooms into an excavation of the bluefin-fishing community. As Paul Kemprecosâ€™s Shamus Award-winning p.i. is about to find out, it is a small, close-knit but competitive group, where the fact that a single tuna has a ten- to twenty-thousand-dollar price tag may inspire men to do evil.

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