2018 IPPY Award Winner. 2019 IPPY Award winner for Best Fiction Series. Steve Cannon must enter the world of the professional musician and the seamy drug underworld of 1960's Las Vegas to solve the murder of a famous recluse trumpet player. With most of the celebrity entertainers on the Strip looking over his shoulder, Steve must also contend with a sadistic killer who has resurfaced as a drug kingpin. 'A Song For Desmond' is a fast paced thriller homage to the hardworking professional musicians that populated the carpet joints of the Las Vegas Strip and the downtown casinos before canned music made them obsolete.
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B. R. Laue (1951-) was born in Worland, Wyoming and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada when he was 12. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, with majors in Anthropology, Linguistics, and Philosophy, he has been employed in the financial services industry for forty years and owns a Registered Investment Advisory firm. His detective series, The Steve Cannon series of novels, is set in Las Vegas in the mid-1960's. The first book in the series: 'Vegas Wash' won an award in the 2017 Kindle book contest and the second book: 'A Song for Desmond' won an IPPY award in 2018 in the Mystery/Detective category. The Steve Cannon Series won an IPPY award for Best Fiction Series in 2019. He is also the author of the 'Raven's Cry Trilogy'.
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The 2019 IPPY Award winner for Best Fiction Series, and the 2018 IPPY Award Winner. The second in the Steve Cannon Detective series, "e;A Song For Desmond, is a fast paced thriller that pays homage to the working professional musician in 1960's Las Vegas.