Blind Vigil

Blind Vigil is the seventh Rick Cahill novel, following the San Diego private investigator who was blinded by a gunshot wound nine months earlier as he takes on one last case as a favor to a former partner. The case quickly turns deadly, and Cahill must determine whether his diminished capabilities are enough to protect his friend while working through his own relationship to the profession that nearly killed him.

Keith Jedlicka's narration gives Cahill's situation the specific texture of a man whose professional identity has been defined by observation suddenly required to operate without his primary sense. The Barry and Shamus Award-winning novel's exploration of competence under limitation benefits from Jedlicka's ability to render both Cahill's professional analysis and the uncertainty that shadows it.