SMFS Member Paul D. Marks has announced that his 2013 Shamus
Award for Best Indie P. I.
winning
novel,
White Heat, has just been reissued by Down & Out Books. The
book is available at the
publisher,
well as
Amazon,
and elsewhere.
Publisher Synopsis … Winner of
the 2013 Shamus Award for Best Indie P.I. Novel!
P.I. Duke Rogers finds himself in a combustible situation in this
racially charged thriller. His case might have to wait…
The immediate problem: getting out of South Central Los Angeles in
one piece during the 1992 “Rodney King” riots and that’s just the beginning of
his problems.
Duke finds an old “friend” for a client. The client’s “friend,” an
up and coming African-American actress, ends up dead. Duke knows his client did
it. Feeling guilty that he inadvertently helped the killer find the victim, he
wants to track down the client/killer. He starts his mission by going to the
dead actress’ family in South Central L.A.—and while there the “Rodney King”
riots ignite.
While Duke searches for the killer he must also deal with the
racism of his partner, Jack, and from Warren, the murder victim’s brother, who
is a mirror image of Jack in that department. He must also confront his own
possible latent racism—even as he’s in an interracial relationship with the
dead woman’s sister.
