Glass Chameleon

Deets Shanahan #7

by Ronald Tierney

A new Deets Shanahan investigation set in New Orleans Too many people with secrets. Michael LaSalle knew who they were and what they wanted to hide. That's probably why he's dead. Ageing Indianapolis private detective Deets Shanahan is asked by an old enemy to investigate a murder ? one to which his old adversary could be linked. He says no, but Howie Cross, Shanahan's sometime partner, takes the case and finds links to the crime in lush and decadent New Orleans, where he looks for something ? anything ? that will shed light on the case.

219 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2006

About the author

Ronald Tierney has been a bus boy, hod carrier, assembly line foreman, retail clerk, Army sergeant, actor, house painter, ditch digger, shipping clerk, salesman, advertising copywriter, frame shop owner, communications director, bank officer, and newspaper editor. He was editor of a San Francisco monthly and founding editor of an alternative weekly. Born in Indianapolis, Tierney attended Indiana University in Bloomington. He lives in San Francisco where he is working on several fiction projects.