Quid Pro Quo
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  • Reads 75,332
  • Votes 6,508
  • Parts 33
  • Time 8h 33m
Complete, First published Jan 19, 2019
Mature
Satchmo Turner is a failed private detective from the rusting heart of the Black Country who is reeling from the loss of his sister and fiancee. He's going nowhere at work, and treading water in life, until he picks up a simple missing person case and stumbles into something much bigger. 

Satchmo soon finds himself in over his head and embroiled a hunt for ancient treasure, unrequited love, violence and murder in a quiet English village stocked with a cast of characters he could never have imagined.

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