Tony Mandolin's past just came back to bite him.
Hard.
San Francisco's pickpockets are dropping dead, fingertips black with a toxin no morgue has ever seen. The money in their pockets is laced with enough poison to wipe out a city block. Someone is waging chemical warfare on the city's sleight-of-hand artists... and doing the taxpayers a favor.
Until the Vatican decides Tony is the real problem.
Turns out breaking up a child-slavery ring that reached into the upper floors of power?and Rome?puts a permanent bullseye on your back. The Jesuits didn't like the headlines. Now three-man hit teams in tailored black are stalking Tony through the fog, armed with suppressed pistols and the kind of blessings that don't come from the nice part of the Bible.
When the poison, the priests, and a very real warning about authentic New Orleans voodoo all point to the same impossible culprit, Tony realizes he's seen this case before... right down to the green-stained spleen in the autopsy photos.
Déjà vu has never been this deadly.
With his seven-foot diva housemate Frankie, a zombie Cajun bartender who's picking up bad juju vibes, a wizard who's more hangover than hero, and a giant mystical crab who owes nobody favors, Tony Mandolin has to solve the unsolvable?again?before the next corpse on the slab is his.
Autorentext
Robert Lee Beers (born 1951) is an author and an artist involved in graphic arts, illustration and fine art.
Originally from Eureka, California, Beers attended Arcata High School and Humboldt State College. He currently resides in Topeka, Kansas.
In 2008 as a state Assemblyman Robert was nominated to be a recipient of the JFK Profiles in Courage Award.
After leaving office, Robert became a licensed mediator for the Nevada Supreme Court's Foreclosure Mediation Program. Upon retiring he was the most successful mediator of his type in the nation, compiling an agreement rate nearing 85%.
He continues to write, and to paint. His Tony Mandolin Mystery series has ten completed novels and several short stories. The first four novels were produced into full-cast audio dramas by Graphic Audio Publishers.
As an artist, Robert is an accomplished painter of portraits, both human and pet, and in producing landscapes that capture the chosen scene with incredible depth and clarity.