Young, Pamela Samuels and Dwayne Alexander Smith. Sounds Like a Plan.

A fun, fast-reading thromance (that’s thriller+romance) with echoes of the old TV Show Moonlighting (if Cybill Shepherd were carrying around an assault rifle in her trunk.) Mackenzie and Jackson are two Black private investigators who are hired by the same client to track down a missing young woman. The first one to locate her will receive a cool $50,000. The two PIs are as different as can be. Princeton-grad Mackenzie comes from a seriously affluent family, with a mother who can only register disgust at her daughter’s choice of career. Jackson grew up in tougher circumstances and came up through the LAPD before hanging out his own shingle. Mackenzie is struggling to get her business off the ground, while Jackson is highly successful but can’t stop indulging in fancy cars and an even fancier wardrobe. The narrative flips between the two personalities, chapter-by-chapter, which gives the authors a chance to explore their characters’ personal lives while keeping the story moving briskly along. As their paths cross, the tension between Mackenzie and Jackson builds, while their struggle to survive becomes paramount. Smith and Young have laid out everything that’s necessary for the making of a wonderful series.