Crime fiction: An accident? Suicide? Or something else? When asked to investigate the death of a former friend, Claims Examiner Blake Whitman follows a trail that leads him through love affairs, old and new, and a drug deal gone bad. Caught between an uncertain future and a past he would rather forget, Whitman's actions have consequences he never imagined. A first novel, Black Chrome reflects the author's interest in hard-boiled detective fiction, noir, and the Decadent movement of the late nineteenth century.

A self-made man who has married into a proud, old family hires Blake Whitman to find a missing gold coin. When a murder occurs at a charitable event and the main suspect is his client's daughter, the case takes a new direction. While navigating the shoals of class and privilege, Whitman meets a landscaper with a philosophy, a kept woman with a secret, and a tough with a fear of water. Once the layers of history have been peeled back, Whitman learns the power dreams can wield for creation or destruction. Everything depends on how one looks at the world.