Once LAPD's top detective, Charlie Waldo has dropped out of society. He lives in a tiny hilltop cabin above the city and obsessively possesses only 100 things. He also minimizes his carbon footprint. He rides a bicycle and in three years has grown a large, scruffy beard. Into this new world comes his former lover, private investigator Lorena, to ask for his help investigating a high-profile murder: TV actor Alastair Pinch stands accused of murdering his wife Monica, but he was drunk and remembers nothing.—Frank Liesenborgs