"Lister's hard-edged prose ranks with the best of contemporary noir fiction." Publisher's Weekly Starred Review of The Big Goodbye. History, Mystery, and Romance Walk the mean streets of wartime Panama City with Jimmy "Soldier" Riley, a wounded, woman-haunted knight errant in Michael Lister's resonant new noir series Publisher's Weekly calls "a promising private detective series set in 1940s Florida," and Library Journal says "peppered with snappy dialog, this hard-boiled mystery by award winner Lister is a swell read." What really happened to Soldier and Lauren the night they left town? Did they survive? Will their love? What comes after saying the big goodbye? Is there anything out there in the big beyond? Someone's trying to kill PI Jimmy "Soldier" Riley.