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In the highly anticipated second Amos Parisman mystery, a simple request turns into a complex investigation when Parisman's latest client is murdered before the job is complete.
About the author
Andy Weinberger is the author of An Old Man's Game, and a longtime bookseller and founder/owner of Readers' Books in Sonoma, California. Born in New York, he grew up in the Los Angeles area and studied poetry and Chinese history at the University of New Mexico. He lives in Sonoma, where Readers' Books continues to thrive.
Summary
The highly anticipated second Amos Parisman mystery
“Amos Parisman is one of the most unique PIs in literary history.”
— Gumshoe Magazine
Somewhat-retired L.A. private eye Amos Parisman is hired by lonely booking agent Pinky Bleistiff to find one of his missing singers, Risa Barsky. But what starts as a simple investigation turns into a complex puzzle when Pinky is murdered and Risa is still nowhere to be found. With suspects dropping dead at every turn, Parisman must act quickly to discover the truth about Risa's relationship with Pinky before an innocent person gets sent to prison.
Foreword
National print, online, and podcast campaign focusing on the mystery market
Social media campaign
Outreach to Jewish literary outlets
Co-op available
ARC giveaways to SCIBA, Left Coast Crime, booksellers & other key events
Bookseller and library promotions: LibraryThing, Edelweiss, and Goodreads
Northern and Southern California events, at mystery conferences and many bookstores, including author's own bookstore
Targeted advertising with SCIBA, the mystery press, and Facebook/Google ads
Author speaking and signing engagements at the LA Times Festival of Books (already scheduled), SCIBA, LitFest Pasadena, and key mystery-writer conferences.
Outreach for interviews/features in large regional publications, especially Los Angeles Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, several Bay Area publications, and Jewish interest outlets, as well as in the mystery-review world.
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“The tight plot is enriched with Amos’s wry observations (“Free is what you are when you don’t want to retire yet but nobody’s beating a path to your doorbell. It’s a terrible thing to be free like that”). Descriptions of Amos’s tender yet increasingly fragile feelings for his dementia-stricken wife add poignancy. Hopefully, Amos still has a long career ahead of him.”
— Publishers Weekly
“Amos Parisman is one of the most unique PIs in literary history…a superb character study…Amos Parisman serves as a guide, leading readers from one crime scene to another while reflecting on mankind's moral decay. His reflections on life are witty and insightful (and sometimes depressing). He provided me with many reasons for wanting to read future installments in the Amos Parisman Mystery series.”
— Gumshoe Magazine
