Nine Fingers — Thom August

Twenty years ago, the Boss of the Chicago Mob thought Franco was having an affair with his wife. He couldn't prove anything, but the Boss still told the pianist to get out of town and never come back. As a reminder, he cut off Franco's little finger....

Vinnie Amatucci is a part-time Chicago cabbie and part-time jazz musician. Things have never been easy for his band, but lately they've been downright deadly. A professional killer known as the Cleaner has been hired to hit first one musician...then another. As members of the band get whacked one by one, a disgraced homicide cop may be their only hope. Will he stop the Cleaner before the whole band is wiped out? And is there any connection between the killings and the new guy sitting in with the band, the one with only...Nine Fingers.