Fred Zackel

Tough Town Cold City: A novel of San Francisco Fred Zackel

San Francisco private eye Frank Pasnow, young, handsome and burly, finds his loyalty to old friends and former girlfriends gets tested when an old friend is brutally murdered. Frank is pitted against powerful foes with old money and elegant attorneys as he tries to bring justice to a haunted victim of that same attack, while death and seduction conspire in San Francisco to stalk this hardheaded PI. Two ex-lovers complicate matters, and Frank discovers that his old friend had more secrets that everyone thought. From the author of JOHNNY CASINO, MURDER IN WAIKIKI, COCAINE AND BLUE EYES and CINDERELLA AFTER MIDNIGHT. Cover design by L. Zackel.