The Do-Re-Mi
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Beschreibung des Verlags
Evergreen, near the Oregon/California border, is a different town than the last time Clifford Hickey visited, only a year ago. Then it was an Eden, a garden of peace and delights, of music and lovely hippies sharing all they had. Now it’s the site of a range war. Bikers have descended upon the place to poach from the hippies’ marijuana plantations. And a home town boy gets murdered the very night Clifford arrives.
Clifford, a recent college graduate, and his adopted brother Alvaro, a gifted musician who hasn't yet adjusted well following a tour in Vietnam, are scheduled to perform at the Evergreen folk festival. But when sheriffs crash the brothers’ reunion at Alvaro’s camp in a redwood forest, Alvaro runs.
In the effort to clear his brother, who is charged with the murder of a sheriff’s nephew, Clifford makes deadly enemies of a gang of outlaw bikers led by a tiny sociopath. When Clifford seeks help from hippies living in Evergreen’s communes, they shun him. So do the locals. Which means he’s on his own, unless the girlfriend of the murdered boy chooses to trust him, or unless he decides to call for help from Pop, detective Tom Hickey.
But Tom’s busy trying to keep Clifford’s mama from returning to the sanitarium.
A Shamus Best P.I. novel finalist.
“… the endearing Hickey clan brings the social and cultural scene of the period vividly to life.” ~ Publisher’s Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in 1972, Kuhlken's fourth mystery to feature the endearing Hickey clan (after 1994's The Angel Gang) follows 22-year-old Clifford Hickey, an aspiring folk singer, as he takes one last stab at a music career before heading to USC law school at the urging of his father, former cop and PI Tom Hickey, the eccentric protagonist of the first three books in the series. Clifford plans to perform at a jamboree in Evergreen, a small town in California redwood country, but shortly after he arrives at his half-brother Alvaro's camp in the woods, the cops storm the site. Alvaro escapes, but Clifford is taken into custody. Later, Alvaro is charged with the murder of a sheriff's nephew, and Clifford must try to prove his brother's innocence in a town filled with vengeful bikers, suspicious locals, crooked cops, rogue federal agents and pot-growing hippies. Kuhlken brings the social and cultural scene of the period vividly to life.
