With BLACKOUT, new evidence in a cold case that's haunted Pete Fernandez throughout his life drags him back to his hometown of Miami.

But as Pete and his partner Kathy Bentley delve deeper into the unsolved murder, they become entangled in Miami’s obsession with a charismatic and dangerous cult leader and his even more menacing followers, and find themselves at odds with a Florida politician’s fixation on wealth, fame and power. It all converges in the heart of the city and Pete is left scrambling to pick up the pieces.

The Pete Fernandez series have always run on two tracks – the over-arching mystery that Pete and his friends have to scramble to solve, and the other following Pete’s journey of recovery from self-destructive alcoholic to somewhat functional private eye. In BLACKOUT, those two tracks blend into one dark, personal and deadly tale of dangerous fixation that will leave Pete Fernandez completely changed. It’s all been building to this.