The hard-boiled detective genre gets a millennial makeover in this smart Chicagoland mystery.

"Little Village" finds Duncan Walsh and his girlfriend, Ginger McAllister, in their small office on historic LaSalle Street. Duncan spends most days buried in the minutiae involved in being the managing editor of their start-up blog, "Vision: Chicago," while Ginger holds the enterprise afloat as the marketing and advertising wiz.

With its small staff of unpaid interns, the "Vision" covers news, sports, politics, the art scene...and missing persons. The blog had received a good kick-start...