It's a Mystery....

Hi Folks—

Apologies in advance for the personal e-mail, but it doesn’t foreshadow a stream of posts on this subject—there should be only one more, when the paper version of my new urban noir mystery comes out.

Yes, I finally finished The Dust Will Answer, and the e-book versions are available now at Smashwords and Amazon. (Please note that they’re both the same price, but that Smashwords, a small and author-cnentric operation, gives me a much bigger cut, an ddoesn’t play funny games with the economy….)

Here are the links:

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00U3IJG9K
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/523312

And here is the cover blurb:

"The Dust Will Answer"

1978: The wave of gentrification has yet to break over downtown Los Angeles, and vast swathes of the warehouse district lie nearly abandoned next to the sterile trench of the city's concrete-clad river.

Lenny Strasser, a straight-arrow type with a taste for shady places, plunges into that world to discover that sometimes the only distance between two points is a very crooked line. When Lenny's friend Dave Larrabee nags him into helping him track down a missing girlfriend, Lenny suspects that the girl doesn't want to be found. He knows her all too well: she was his before she was Dave's, and she'd gone gleefully missing from his life one time too many. Worse, he's not entirely sure he's over his feelings for the theatrical and self-centered Kate.

But this time it wasn't one of her ordinary infidelities--she may have fallen, again, into the hands of the charismatic Nighthawk, who could lead her into territories where the danger is real and role-playing no protection from harm.

The quest takes them into hobo jungles and punk squats by the LA River--and into an after-midnight darkness of moral ambiguity that changes Lenny's life in ways he'd never dreamed of.

I actually spent a year and a half visiting hobo jungles in the '80s when I was photographing and interviewing railroad tramps, and a lot of those experiences went into the book. And there’s a strong New Urbanist bent to the treatment of settings, and how the characters get around, though in the context of the story’s timeframe.

Hope you enjoy it!

Cheers,

Rick
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Richard Risemberg
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