Provincetown Follie Bangkok Blues - Softcover

Peffer, Randall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440553947 ISBN 13: 9781440553943

Publisher: Gallery Books, 2012

Synopsis

An “offbeat legal procedural/whodunit” in the Cape Island mystery series set in Provincetown that “fans of Jonathan Ames’s The Extra Man and other gending-bending fiction” (Publishers Weekly) will find intriguing.

Luang kho ngu hao. Now I put my hand in the cobra’s throat.

Tuki Aparecio did not kill her lover. She did not burn down the Painted Lady—at least, not with fire. Tuki lit up the stage nightly, with her hair in braids and her glorious costumes; glittering, smoldering, singing her heart out for an audience who loved her. She brought the house down with her performances. But she’s innocent of murder, innocent of arson.

How can Michael DeCastro possibly hope to defend this beautiful drag queen, who brings with her a whole pack of nasty little secrets, straight from Bangkok’s notorious tenderloin district? She speaks in aphorisms, the wisdom of the Buddha combined with the lyrics of Whitney Houston. She is fascinating. And Michael can’t let her go to jail.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Provincetown Follies, Bangkok Blues is a finalist for the Lambda Award for Best Gay Mystery.

About the Author:

Randall Peffer is the author of over 300 travel-lifestyle features for magazines like National Geographic, National Geographic Traveler, Smithsonian, Reader's Digest, Travel Holiday, Islands and Sail. In fact, Sail alone has published more than 35 of his features. In addition, his travel features syndicate in most of the US major metro dailies like the New York Times, Washington Post, Miami Herald, Boston Globe, San Francisco Examiner, Denver Post and Chicago Tribune.

Randy established himself as a maritime writer with his first book, Watermen(Johns Hopkins), a documentary of the lives of the Chesapeake's fishermen. It won the Baltimore Sun's Critic's Choice award and is now in its third paperback edition. During the last three years, Randy has published travel guides about New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania(National Geographic) and Washington, D.C. and the Capital Region(Lonely Planet) and Savannah, Charleston and the Carolina Coast (Lonely Planet). He has also authored Lonely Planet's guide to Puerto Rico, LP's Virgin Islands guide and their New England guide.

Intrigue Press published his first novel, an edgy murder mystery called Killing Neptune's Daughter, in May of 2004. His second novel, Provincetown Follies, Bangkok Blues was published in 2006.

The son of a career naval officer, and a working mariner on traditional sailing vessels since the age of 20, Randy brings an intimate knowledge of the naval life and windships to his writing. Over the course of 35 years at sea he has served as deckhand and mate aboard a 100-year-old Chesapeake Bay skipjack, a cargo schooner, a cod longliner, a swordfishermen and a research vessel.

For 15 summers Randy has been active in the American Sail Training Association. Working as the licensed captain of Phillips Academy/Andover's research schooner Sarah Abbot, he has carried biology students on research cruises of the southern New England coast and sailed the schooner from eastern Maine to the Southern Bahamas. The story of one such summer has become a literary memoir that not only evokes the natural drama of life aboard a traditional working vessel, but also uncovers the considerable history of coastal New England.

This book, called Logs of the Dead Pirates Society, was published by Sheridan House in the June of 2000, receiving uniformly positive reviews in places like The Boston Globe, The Library Journal and all major nautical publications. Sail magazine featured an excerpt of this book in their January, 2000, 30th Anniversary issue. Excerpts have also appeared in The Captain's Guide to Cape Cod 2001 and the 2002 edition of the American Sail Training Association Directory. Randy has given more than 45 readings, lectures and signings to promote the book, and he continues to make public appearance on behalf of the book at yacht clubs, maritime museums and tall ship festivals.

He teaches literature and writing at Phillips Academy Andover.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1440553947
• ISBN 13: 9781440553943
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200