Alcoholic Detective?

[Maninacan]

Anyone read or heard of recent, last 5 yrs book about alcoholic blackout drunk Female private eye?

[dlbell]

1. Sorry, only male

“Knife” by Jo Nesbit is about a male alcoholic detective.

Those Scandinavians sure love gore in their novels.

[LearnedHand]

2. Jo *Nesb*, and i like his books too

EDIT: Ugh sorry the subject line doesn’t render letters not in the English alphabet. His name is Jo Nesbø.

[txwhitedove]

3. Hmm, I like the Coyote Run series by Marta Acosta, about Maddie Whitney a dog handler

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who works her K9s with law enforcement on cases. She has social and alcohol issues, on the spectrum and love her voice. I've read 3 books starting with The Dog Thief.

2 searches kept popping up The Girl from Silent Lake by Leslue Wolfe. Definitely want to read but couldn't tell if there's an alcohol issue.