San Francisco, 1990s. Sometimes it just does not pay to get up in the morning.
Tony Mandolin, private eye, beer enthusiast, and the only guy in the phone book dumb enough to take cases involving the supernatural.
When a gorgeous redhead hires him to find her missing sister, Tony figures it's just another cheating-husband job. Then the sister turns up dead, the client vanishes, and San Francisco's top Crime Lord has an unsettling interest in one slightly tattered PI.
Suddenly, Tony's dodging:
- Mob bosses who think he's on the payroll
- A bent cop who's determined to get his revenge
- A 7-foot cross dresser who's jealous
- And one urbane vampire
All Tony has going for him is a stubborn streak, a mouth that never shuts up, and the growing suspicion that "A Slight Case of Death" might be the understatement of the century.
A Slight Case of Death is the laugh-out-loud first book in the Tony Mandolin Mysteries ? perfect for fans of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, Simon R. Green's Nightside, and anyone who thinks Raymond Chandler should have written about bloodsuckers.
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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.
Bob was first elected to the Nevada Assembly in November 2006. As an Assemblyman, Bob Beers was nominated to be a recipient of the JFK Profiles in Courage Award.
Bob is a recipient of the Bank of America Award in Art and was the Humboldt-Del Norte champion in the high hurdles in 1969.
After leaving office, Bob Beers 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%.
Bob 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, Bob is an accomplished painter of portraits, both human and pet, and in producing landscapes that capture the chosen scene with incredible depth and clarity.
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Nothing is as it seems…
Vampires don't exist, do they? That's a question Private Detective Tony Mandolin finds himself pondering as the evidence piles up pointing to just that in a case involving a string of dead redheads and the usual dose of weirdness San Francisco has to offer. To complicate things, Mandolin doesn't appreciate the perception of those around him that he's become the latest golden boy of Fog City's crime boss. None of that gets into his cross-dressing friend Frankie... Ahh, just another day in San Francisco.