Murder In Pacific Grove

About the Book

Detective Lisa Spurlock, fortyish, widowed by tragedy, hooked on chocolate, pieces together the life of a young drifter whose body has been found at Lovers Point in Pacific Grove, California. She discovers that among the few people in P.G. who knew the deceased, hardly any are particularly saddened at his passing. With the forensic assistance of her friend Bobby Takeda and the questionable aid of amateur detective Don Thames (who has plenty of troubles of his own, including a taste for alcohol), Lisa works her way toward the truth, which is revealed in a fight-to-the-finish climax at Lovers Point.

About the Author

Frank Purdham was born in Denver, Colorado, as long ago as 1948. By the time he reached the age of twelve, he had written a number of stories and poems and even a Christmas play that was performed by his sixth-grade classmates. He now has more then one thousand unpublished poems, forty-five short stories, and four novels in various stages of completion. As a result of the need to support himself while writing, he was also a Russian linguist in the U.S. Navy and, for twenty years, a teacher of Russian and English at Arvada West High School, in Arvada Colorado.