Benjamin Franklin Rhodes is a private investigator living in the town of Coulee Dam in eastern Washington. As a former insurance claims investigator in larger cities, his out of kilter timing and general bad karma triggered less than sanguine emotions in his many supervisors. Now that he is on his own, will his luck take a turn for the better? Will the quaint little town he now lives in calm his life down? Don't bet your grubstake on it.