Reduced Circumstances — Vincent H. O'Neil

Moonlighting as a dispatcher for Midnight Taxi, Frank Cole hopes to supplement slow days as a background checker. It's not the best money he's ever made -- but it could be the dirtiest when he's dragged into a mystery involving high-end grifters, stolen cash and murder in the Florida Panhandle town of Exile.

A young con man was picked up by one of Midnight's drivers in front of a sleazy hotel right before a big drug bust. Now, a smooth-talking P.I., a couple of bounty hunters and the kid's dewy-eyed girlfriend all want to know where he is. Frank, a successful software developer before his own bubble burst, knows the kid is in dangerously deep with something. And since everyone's leaning on Frank for hard and fast answers, he decides to start digging for some…to save his own skin.