Brittle Karma

Richard Helms' Derringer Award-winning (The Gospel According to Gordon Black) and Shamus Award-nominated (Cordite Wine) San Francisco private eye Eamon Gold returns in Brittle Karma, a tale cast in molds forged by Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, and Robert B. Parker. In Brittle Karma, Eamon Gold turns away a potential client named Abner Carlisle, a recently paroled armored car robber. Carlisle is looking for heist crew member Eddie Rice, who disappeared with the money and Carlisle's daughter Lydia a quarter century earlier. When Carlisle is murdered, Gold discovers the insurance company will pay ten percent of whatever heist money he recovers. Gold is temporarily bucks-up, but with no paying client on the horizon, so he dives in on spec, trying to make a little quick bank on the coldest of cold cases ever. As usual, things become complicated...