Matt Grudge and Leslie Crow, disenchanted private investigators with an affinity for the alternative lifestyle of the nineties, dubbed the Grunge Operatives, probe a murder that hits them where they live and breathe, the killing of the tattoo artist and proprietress of the parlor where their first tats were inked.This Special Edition contains illustrations by Daniel Cooney, and a bonus short story that introduces a key supporting character in book II of the Alternative Investigations series, The Grunge Operatives.