Shallow Grave. Savage Winter. No Way Cooler

After serving eleven years for murder, private detective Joe Kurtz is released and tries to return to his beloved work.

However, the former criminal can never regain his license to practice private investigation, so Joe has to operate illegally.

This leads to his main clients being… gangsters, who need help either finding a runaway accountant, eliminating the head of a competing clan, or catching a maniac who has opened a hunt on the mafia.

And since the past never lets Kurtz go, he is constantly distracted by those wishing to settle old scores…