'The Lesson Plan', G.J.Prager [me reader txt] 📗

Times are tough in L.A., and Robert Klayman, substitute high school teacher, attempts to solve his money woes along with a mid-life crisis by trying on a new career; he finds a job moonlighting as a private detective.
He's in over his head, and soon enough stumbles upon a criminal drug ring working out of the Los Angeles Unified School District. His efforts and schemes to find the murderer of a young teacher take him on a spine tingling journey through the violent netherworld of private detection.