<p>First book in two-time Shamus Award nominee Richard Helms' new Eamon Gold PI series, set in modern-day San Francisco. Noted trial attorney Taylor Chu has been brutally murdered and dropped at the base of the Bay Bridge. The local media are filled with graphic accounts of his death. How, then, can he also be sitting in private investigator Eamon Gold's office near Hyde Pier, sipping Gold's Glenlivet single malt? As Gold investigates this puzzle, he will encounter ambitious Homeland Security agents, tong overlords, Marin County pornographers, unscrupulous attorneys, and an attempt to ignite a gang war in San Francisco's Chinatown Two-time Shamus Award Nominee (Juicy Watusi, Wet Debt) Richard Helms pulls out all the stops in this hard-hitting, knuckles-and-know-how debut of his exciting new Eamon Gold series, GRASS SANDAL If the first chapter of Grass Sandal doesn't hook you, give up reading mysteries. Highly recommended Jeremiah Healy, Shamus Award Winner, author of SPIRAL, and THE ONLY GOOD LAWYER Eamon Gold is clearly the rightful heir to the sacred territory of Sam Spade. More twists and turns than Lombard Street. Richard Helms delivers some of the smartest dialogue in the genre William Kent Krueger, Anthony Award Winner, author of BLOOD HOLLOW Both the initial entry and CORDITE WINE (September 2005) offer a return to classic dick lit (i.e. private eye fiction) in a classic location. Publishers Weekly Authors on the Ascendent November 22, 2004</p>

Grass Sandal

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Helms, Richard

Mystery

Back Alley Books

Second book in the Eamon Gold P.I. series by two-time Shamus Award nominee Richard Helms. Eamon Gold is approached by Napa Valley winery heir Asa Corona to help stop people who are blackmailing him with pictures taken in a San Francisco gay bathhouse. The routine case becomes complicated when Gold's prime suspect is murdered, and his client disappears. While trying to find the murderer, and his missing client, Eamon Gold runs across closeted kiddie show stars, a gay pro football linebacker, potentially corrupted politicians, and a nasty gangster with a secret worth killing to keep. "CORDITE WINE is tough, funny, exciting, and very good!" - Robert B. Parker, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master. "Richard Helms writes the classic private eye novel with panache, class, and a self-assured breeziness. CORDITE WINE moves with ease among northern California's bathhouses, vineyards, cop shops and mob joints. Helms and his hero, Eamon Gold, are welcome additions to the genre." - SJ Rozan, Edgar Award Winner and author of ABSENT FRIENDS.

Cordite Wine

<p>Imagine what might happen if a supernatural killing machine walked the earth. What if raw, bestial howling filled the air beneath the light of a full moon? Now imagine being stalked by a creature that resembles a wolf but is as large as a full-grown brown bear. A creature with a face and fangs out of your worst nightmare. A beast that only knows hunting and killing in the most savage manner possible.\nJust imagine …\nWhat would witnesses say about what they’ve just seen? What might survivors of a werewolf attack have to say knowing that they themselves will become a monster? And what about science? Is there any data on a phenomenon that no scholar or scientist can even agree exists? Is there legal standing for a creature that only lives and breathes for a few hours each month? What about the legal standing of the human host? How far might government go to hide evidence that werewolves existed? Are there stories from the past about the monsters? How could folklore become blood-soaked fact? Where do werewolves come from in the first place?\nCity, town, or village, rural or in the north, a monster is hungry, and you just might be on the menu.</p>

The Canadian Werewolf Chronicle: Stories from Witnesses to the Werewolf Phenomenon

Literature & Fiction

Cummings, Sean

Genre Fiction

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