Losers Weepers: 2

When a wealthy Memphis family needs a dangerous piece of private property recovered, they are told there is one man who may be able to handle the problem quietly.Anthony "Pope" has built his reputation by knowing people, remembering favors, and finding answers where official channels cannot. The job sounds simple enough: recover a videotape made years earlier without the knowledge of Caroline Whitmore, daughter of one of Memphis's most influential men. Caroline is about to marry a rising prosecutor, and her father is willing to pay handsomely to make sure the tape never surfaces.But the man holding the tape, Wade Talbot, has spent years turning other people's secrets into money. When Pope discovers Caroline was not his only victim, a quiet recovery job becomes something far more dangerous. Then Wade is murdered, and Pope becomes one of the last people known to have confronted him. With the family that hired him suddenly keeping its distance and Detective Ray Holloway following the evidence wherever it leads, Pope has no choice but to uncover the truth himself.The deeper Pope digs, the more he discovers that Wade's secrets reached into old Memphis families, political ambitions, and a world where some people solve problems without ever calling the police. Somewhere in the city, the missing tape is still changing hands. And finding it may prove much easier than deciding who should possess it when the truth finally comes out.Losers Weepers is Book Two of The Pope of Memphis, a Southern crime series about favors, loyalty, secrets, and a man who survives between the law and the underworld without belonging to either.