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A Casey McKie Mystery
Casey McKie is a 36-year-old private investigator who lives in San Francisco’s Chinatown and hangs out at her singer friend Dee Jefferson's jazz club in nearby North Beach.
When Dee asks Casey to check into the supposed suicide of a long-time friend, Casey hesitates. She doesn’t believe Milton Brown was murdered, since all signs point to suicide. But, friendship wins out, and Casey reluctantly agrees, believing it will be easy to disprove Dee’s theory.
After a second body is found, Casey decides Dee is right – someone may be targeting people from the jazz community. As more bodies turn up, Casey follows clues to an Oakland blues club, a Seattle record company, and a Palm Springs gay escort service, her quest ending in a deadly encounter with the killer.
"Joan Merrill had me before I began reading "And All That Murder" with its sly, witty, perversely cunning title. What jazz musician has not played or appreciated the harmonic freedom of a deceptive cadence? What jazz musician does not relish being smoothly nudged into a different key? Jazz lovers will feel that same joy as Ms Merrill craftily deflects suspicion from suspect to suspect before sounding the final chord in this swinging whodunit. " -- Harvey Siders, Jazz Times
"Imagine a setting as syncopated as San Francisco; add the lingo of hard-nosed local gendarmes. Mix both in the unpredictable environment of jazz, and you have an irresistible recipe for another exhilarating page-turner from Joan Merrill and her alter ego, Detective Casey McKie."
-- Harvey Siders, Jazz Times
"Casey McKie is a smart, tough, straight-talking (and when necessary
straight-shooting) PI and one of the most original characters to come
along in years.
The dark side of San Francisco is where Casey works. In her free time,
she indulges her passion for jazz, frequenting her best friend’s jazz
club in North Beach. Both these worlds, the dark and the jazzy, are
brought vividly and accurately to life as Casey solves the mysteries
that surround her."
--
Bruce Crowther, Jazz Journal