Another story that has some detail, whereby the strength of the writing style makes the story-flow work from start to final.

``You're direct and brutally practical but courteous, well dressed and well spoken...you could tell me to go to Hell and I'd look forward to the trip...´´

The character interaction makes this much better than a solitary detective on a job approaches, because herein it works out fine, as we can develop or likes or dislikes about the characters.

A tone of French flair is predominant in this story, and the dialogues include some witty & clever lines.

Impressive work, though not the kind of story I prefer (my RL is too far off that mainstream normalcy, since I restored myself from homeless wreck to worker & back to unemployed wreck. LOL)