Provincetown Follies, Bangkok Blues - Hardcover
A mysterious fire sweeps through the commercial district of Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the police hypothesize that the blaze was set to cover up the murder of Big Al Costelano, a notorious P-town playboy, real estate tycoon, and mobster. The prime suspect is the victim's estranged half-Vietnamese, half-African American, drag queen lover, Tuki Aparecio. Michael DeCastro, a Portuguese American, former fifth generation commercial fisherman, is Tuki's court-appointed attorney. Up until now, DeCastro has thrived on doing good deeds like tenant-landlord arbitration or representing the underprivileged in divorce and custody battles. He is thoroughly unprepared for the likes of Tuki and the whole pack of nasty little secrets trailing behind her from Bangkok's notorious tenderloin zone, the Patpong. Knowing he should remove himself from the case, DeCastro finds himself both frustrated and intrigued by this dragon lady of 10,000 mysteries. And even though the evidence suggests otherwise, he believes Tuki is innocent. Unless DeCastro finds the creeps who framed her for the fire and murder, Tuki will die in prison, and he just can't let that happen. Randall Peffer is the author of Watermen, Logs of the Dead Pirates Society, and six travel guides. His writing has appeared in Smithsonian, Reader's Digest, National Geographic, New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Examiner, Chicago Tribune, and many other publications. He teaches literature and writing at Phillips Academy/Andover. This is his first novel.
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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.
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.
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- PublisherBleak House Books
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1932557199
- ISBN 13 9781932557190
- BindingHardcover
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