A Hitman on Haight Street (2) (The Haight Mystery Series)

Product Description As SFPD Detective Jimmy Spracklin hunts a serial killer at a 1968 music festival in Haight-Ashbury, he has to protect his daughter Marie from both the killer and the police.Spracklin is already being hounded by Internal Affairs officers when the headless body of a hippie heiress is found in Golden Gate Park. Now he must solve the high-profile murder while fighting off the IA probe, which is targeting not only Spracklin but also Marie. One misstep could result in Marie facing a murder charge. A Hitman on Haight Street follows Spracklin as he shields his daughter from the SFPD and searches Haight-Ashbury for the heiress’s killer. The second book in the Haight Mystery series is a dark page-turner set against the counterculture of the 1960s. Praise for Book 1 in Haight Mystery Series: “The Haight is a fabulous book!” – Pamela Callow, author of the Kate Lange Thriller Series “Highly recommended.” – Ken McGoogan, author and adventurer About the Author An author of three non-fiction books, Peter Moreira spent more than 30 years in journalism in Asia, Europe and North America. He worked for a decade with The Deal of New York, serving as London Bureau Chief and then covering M&A and finance in the U.S. At Bloomberg, he covered European and U.K. banking and finance. He previously worked for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, Knight-Ridder Financial in Hong Kong and Seoul, and the Canadian Press's parliamentary bureau in Ottawa. His writing has appeared in USA Today, the Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, National Post, the Chronicle-Herald and the Independent on Sunday (London). Peter is the author of Hemingway on the China Front (Potomac, 2006) Backwater: Nova Scotia's Economic Decline (Nimbus 2009), and The Jew Who Defeated Hitler (Prometheus, 2014). He presented an academic paper to the Hemingway Society’s biennial conference in Ronda, Spain, has been the keynote speaker at the Hemingway Symposium in Ketchum, Idaho, and has had his fiction read on RTHK in Hong Kong.