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A mysterious fire sweeps through the commercial district of ProvincetownMassachusetts and the police hypothesize that the blaze was set to cover upthe murder of Big Al Costelano a notorious Ptown playboy real estate tycoonand mobster. The prime suspect is the victims estranged halfVietnamese halfAfrican American drag queen lover Tuki Aparecio.Michael DeCastro a Portuguese American former fifth generation commercialfisherman is Tukis courtappointed attorney. Up until now DeCastro hasthrived on doing good deeds like tenantlandlord arbitration or representingthe underprivileged in divorce and custody battles. He is thoroughly unpreparedfor the likes of Tuki and the whole pack of nasty little secrets trailingbehind her from Bangkoks notorious tenderloin zone the Patpong.Knowing he should remove himself from the case DeCastro finds himself bothfrustrated and intrigued by this dragon lady of 10000 mysteries. And eventhough the evidence suggests otherwise he believes Tuki is innocent. UnlessDeCastro finds the creeps who framed her for the fire and murder Tuki will diein prison and he just cant let that happen.Randall Peffer is the author of Watermen Logs of the Dead Pirates Societyand six travel guides. His writing has appeared in Smithsonian ReadersDigest National Geographic New York Times Washington Post San FranciscoExaminer Chicago Tribune and many other publications. He teaches literatureand writing at Phillips AcademyAndover. This is his first novel. «
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