The Hollow Woman — Simon Ritchie

John Kenneth Galbraith Jantarro knew the seamy side of Toronto like the back of his one hand. He had lost his other hand to sadistic prison guards, and even the lawsuit that cleared his name and put big bucks in his bank account couldn't win back his respect until he became the city's best private eye.
Now he had a case that looked as easy as one, two, three. Fritz Georg's wife and child had been snatched. All Jantarro had to do was drop off the ransom and smile as the rich old man's family was reunited. Instead he woke up in a hospital with a concussion, the money gone, and the wife and son dead. Suddenly nothing added up - not the motive for the kidnapping, the method of the murders, or the reason someone else was about to die...