Raised as a Southern belle, Cici McNair escaped her suffocating, strict up-bringing to travel the world. From working at the Vatican in Rome to dining with a gunrunner in Haiti, she lived a life of international adventure. Eventually Cici landed in New York where she found herself divorced, and unemployed and she decided it was time follow a childhood dream and become a private investigator. But, as Cici quickly learned, the world of PI's is tight-knit, almost exclusively former law enforcement and highly suspicious of newcomers. She fiinally gets a toe in the door by landing work with an investigator described as 'poison' throughout the industry and brushes shoulders with the drug runners and the Vietnamese Mafia in Chinatown working undercover on counterfeiting cases. She eventually goes solo to start her own firm, Green Star Investigations. Detailing the hidden world and real-life cases of a PI, this action-packed memoir is as riveting as any detective novel you've ever read.

西西·麦克奈尔（Cici McNair），私家侦探，毕业于密西西比州的布兰斯克里夫大学。她曾为CBC电视台的获奖纪录片《犯罪连线》担任调查员。

她同时还是新闻写手、电台主播，以及罗马梵蒂冈广播电台的纪录片制片人。她曾周游世界，并在加拿大、英国、意大利、葡萄牙、瑞士、塞浦路斯等地居住过一段时期。

麦克奈尔目前住在费城，拥有自己的私人调查公司——绿星侦探所，处理包括药品造假、人口失踪、艺术品被盗、谋杀等各类案件。她还是法庭指定的凶杀案调查员，负责处理多项案件。