Coastside Detectives

<p>The views of San Francisco so well-known from dozens of film noir tales and classic novels are the backdrop to a tale rooted in the smart-bombed skyline of present-day Baghdad with results in San Francisco just as deadly. </p><p>Detective Mike Mason now lives in Pacifica a small coastal town just south of San Francisco but is drawn back to the rough streets of the city’s Tenderloin District by a new client Laura Grandviewer who is as beautiful as she is untrustworthy. Lies and half-truths send Mike upon a crooked path and before he can unsnarl all of the loose ends Laura has set waving in the criminal winds a growing body count will work to unnerve this harden detective and end in a climatic splash of blood. </p><p>The latest in a long line of West Coast private eyes Mike Mason takes stock of the state of his soul as he navigates the complexities of a criminal caper and finds clarity for both in the fog-scrubbed sky viewed from California’s winding Highway One.</p>