Connor MacLauren

Connor MacLauren (front-left)
Connor MacLauren, or just 'MacLauren', is a 30 something freelance private investigator and hard-boiled detective whose base of operations is Rockford's capital city, Durham. Jaded by unseemliness which comes with his line of work and heartbroken by the one dame who got away, MacLauren has grown dispassionate and unflinchingly realistic over the years. He pursues his quarries with such tenacious persistence that his reputation for reliability has spread among clients and marks alike. He is connected to a vast network of underworld contacts and insatiably curious. MacLauren is known for his discretion and ingenuity. He is the man to call on when you want the job done right. However, he is also callous, misogynistic and occasionally condescending. All but his most high-born clients seem to receive diminutive nicknames within fifteen minutes of meeting him. MacLauren is dragged into the unfolding events when he is hired by Lord Sedgwick to help him recover the Lord's wayward teenage daughter from what appears to be an elopement with a local boy. When the two went missing, MacLauren is called in to find Miss Sedgwick and 'solve' this problem of star-crossed love.

Storyline

• Begins with MacLauren waking up in a bed clearly not his own, next to a lady he barely knows, and realizing he is late for a meeting with a prospective client.