Chilling…satisfying…offers up tasty tidbits of San Francisco lore…[Russell] has a gift for dialogue, slyly using it to reveal character. -New York Times Book Review

San Francisco P.I. Stuart Winter looks into the death of a young, deaf heiress who volunteered as a sign language instructor-for a gorilla who may have witnessed her murder.

Polished and provocative…a California mystery of the hard-boiled school…very well written, with a corking good plot and fine characters. -Booklist

Remarkable…[hops] from avant-garde theater to a deaf school, from winos’ alleys to an artist’s studio, to a double-twist conclusion. -Armchair Detective

An exemplary debut. Highly recommended. -Kirkus Reviews

A shocker…a genuinely original PI novel. -Jeremiah Healy, Shamus Award-winning author

A wise book, distilled from a life’s understanding of the human animal: its limits, excesses, and, on occasion, its surpassing beauty. -Loren D. Estleman, author of the Amos Walker Mysteries

Three Tails Press editions have been revised and updated by the author.