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Rolly Waters is a recovering rock musician and part-time private eye. One night his band performs at a blowout party for EyeBitz.com, a fast-rising Internet startup that has the city of San Diego talking. When Rolly returns after hours to retrieve his guitar from the host’s mansion, he finds a dead body floating in the swimming pool. His discovery sets in motion a series of intrigues that drag him into the surreal world of dot.com culture, as well as the dark heart of his own uneven past.
Rolly’s investigation leads him to a motley crew of suspicious characters that include Ricky Rogers, excitable CEO who speaks in surfer lingo; King Gibson, mysterious financier and high-stakes grifter; Curtis Vox, computer geek extraordinaire; Alesis Amati, secretary and porn rock star; Little Walter, harmonica-playing goon; and Fender Dodge, Rolly’s friend and V.P. of Mindshare for EyeBitz.com.
Black's Beach Shuffle updates the classic Southern California gumshoe world of Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald with contemporary technology riffs, new millennium anxieties and sun-blotted humor. It pumps out a page-turning mix of plot twists, colorful characters and laugh-out-loud humor as Rolly's investigation ricochets him from the high-tech industrial parks of Torrey Pines Mesa to downtown blues clubs, from street taco shops to the penthouse of the La Jolla Hyatt, from the hallowed halls of academia to the sands of Black's Beach, San Diego's official clothing-optional playground.
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"It most definitely leaves a stain.”
When nesting grounds at the Border Field Park bird preserve are torn to shambles by eco-vandals, Rolly Waters is hired to follow the tracks left behind. Feeling less than optimistic about nabbing the perpetrators, he begins his due diligence, crossing paths with a tormented vaquero, border vigilantes, and an aging rock groupie. A menacing house call from a scalpel-wielding orderly in pursuit of a prostitute named after an 80’s pop hit confounds Rolly’s case even further. When police detective Bonnie Hammond hands him a coroner’s report, he knows it’s turned deadly.
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