Eve Missing: a Smokey Annicelli Mystery (Volume 1)

Tony Annicelli (aka Smokey) retired from the NYPD after he took four bullets in his side trying to settle a domestic dispute. He's asked by a famous model to look for a friend who suddenly disappears ? a young model, Angela Bowman (Eve), who a year earlier was working as a teenage prostitute. Eve was taken in and cleaned up by a sophisticated designer named Danielle Gioux. Smokey is smitten the first time he meets her. He finds out Danielle attacked Eve the night before Eve disappeared. Then Danielle goes missing, too.