PI Deets Shanahan takes on the search of his lifetime - When seventy-one-year-old private investigator Deets Shanahan learns from a snippet of news on the Internet that his brother – who disappeared when they were kids – could be somewhere in Thailand, he immediately sets out, accompanied by his lover, Maureen, to find his errant sibling. But it turns out that this is much more than finding a missing person who wants to stay missing, and treasure, deceit and murder soon interrupt their search on the streets of Bangkok and on the beaches of Phuket . . .
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.
A tale of two elderly men mixed up in a search for a long lost brother, murder and smuggling.
I found this book very entertaining – some of the plot points were very far-fetched and the mixing of the two stories was a little odd as the only link between the tales was that the men knew each other.
This is the first Diets Shanahan mystery that I have read. There are two separate stories going on here. The first with Deets Shanahan and the second with Howie Cross. The stories are not connected except that the characters have had interaction with each other in the past. The stories are in two different places. The action switches from one to the other. Just when you become engrossed in one everything switches back to the other story. I found this annoying. I think the Howie Cross story is the better one.