Killer Swell by Jeff Shelby

FROM THE PUBLISHER
"Noah Braddock isn't your typical angst-ridden, liquor-swilling, grizzled PI. In fact, he's fairly young - just shy of thirty - and overall, baby, life is good. His job as a PI gives him plenty of time to surf and makes him enough money to keep his beachfront apartment and a six-pack of beer in the fridge." "His life gets a lot more complicated however when Marilyn Crier, the mother of his high school girlfriend, Kate, calls him out of the blue and tells him that Kate is missing - and she wants Noah to find her." Noah's more than a touch surprised that Marilyn wants to hire him - after all, when he was in high school, she'd made it clear that her daughter should be dating someone more suitable, not a surfer from the wrong side of the tracks. Although he's reluctant to get involved, he can't say no, not when Kate might be in danger. The more he investigates her disappearance, though, the more he realizes that Kate wasn't the person he remembered - and that to learn the truth, he must first confront the dark corners of his own past.