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.