Presumed Guilty: Book 2 of the Z Zander Detective Series (Z Xander Private Detective Mysteries 1)

Ray Grimes, an inner-circle leg breaker for the Dallas mob, pled guilty to a murder and went to prison. Now Ray claims he was blackmailed into taking the fall for the killing that he believed was done by the mob boss. After surviving fifteen years in the joint, the crime boss dies and Ray wants out of prison. Keeping his mouth shut after the boss-man croaks wasn’t part of the deal.
He writes his pen pal asking her to contact Zachary Xander, a Dallas private investigator. Xander’s investigation rattles the cages of the Dallas mob, the local pimp and prostitution scene, the District Attorney’s office and hit men from Chicago Everybody wants a piece of Xander, and he’s willing to give each his shot if it means getting an innocent man out of jail…If he’s innocent.