The book, oh, what a tangled web, is a crime, mystery novel set in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area. It involves the San Francisco Police Department’s Homicide and Forensics Bureaus in trying to solve the case. The main characters, a group of detectives, inspectors in the SFPD, share similar backgrounds having grown up in the City with roots in police service. As the story moves throughout the city, the narrative allows you to feel that your part of the City scene, as you travel through it’s different, and completely unique neighborhoods. The author, a native San Franciscan and former police officer, is uniquely qualified to guide this tour.
The story starts in the Broadway neighborhood, the former mecca to the topless dancer movement and the clubs that grew up and flourished in the 60’s and 70’s. The neighborhood has fallen into disarray as topless dancing gave way to a much more explicit form of entertainment. Today the clubs are shadows of the former glory days, the scene is seedy, and the new owners are even worse than the new clientele. Organized crime and the bartering of sex, drugs and human trafficking have become common place. Ivan, one member of a Russian crime syndicate, ventures out on his own and partners with a mystery man that will prove to be a fateful decision.
After coming across an unexpected discovery in their storage unit, a couple enlists the help of the SFPD's Homicide Bureau to decipher their findings. The case becomes part of the workload for a two-officer team, Inspectors John O'Neill and Liam Donnelly, who follow a broken trail to find the criminal. With the help of Inspector Kathy Sullivan from Vice, the inspectors uncover the recent disappearances of girls in the escort and mail order bride services. The question remains – who is the man behind all this? This novel is an unraveling of twisted events that shakes up the SFPD and the city's justice system, with everyone involved giving it their all to solve this intriguing case.
After coming across an unexpected discovery in their storage unit, a couple enlists the help of the SFPD's Homicide Bureau to decipher their findings. The case becomes part of the workload for a two-officer team, Inspectors John O'Neill and Liam Donnelly, who follow a broken trail to find the criminal. With the help of Inspector Kathy Sullivan from Vice, the inspectors uncover the recent disappearances of girls in the escort and mail order bride services. The question remains – who is the man behind all this? This novel is an unraveling of twisted events that shakes up the SFPD and the city's justice system, with everyone involved giving it their all to solve this intriguing case.