Ready by Dion Graham

Leonid McGill has spent a lifetime building is reputation as a private investigator in New York. His seemingly infallible instincts and his inside knowledge of the crime world make him the ideal man to help when Philip "Catfish" Worry comes knocking. Catfish is a ninety-four-year-old Mississippi bluesman who needs Leonid's help with a simple task: deliver a letter revealing the black lineage of a wealthy heirs and her corrupt father. The opportunity to do a simple favor while shocking the prevailing elite is impossible for Leonid to resist.