A More Perfect Union

by Joseph Allen

Overview

Former ADA Eddie Hill, divorced African-American father of two, plans to marry Jimmy van Gelsen, wealthy gay man who, like Eddie, has been unlucky in love. Eddie is injured in a car accident on the NY Thruway, and Jimmy is shot in the forehead, killing him instantly. Was it Eddie's gun? If so, with Eddie in the hospital upstate, who pulled the trigger? Hugo, Ruth and Gabriele sort through a thicket of clues—a stolen Bentley, a shabby vacation home on Antigua, a multimillion-dollar co-op in Greenwich Village with fabulous art. Major political demonstrations with thugs and tiki torches, reminiscent of the Charlottesville riots with protesters battling in the streets—one at a prayer vigil, one a "Million Woman March" down Fifth Avenue, another outside the Copley Plaza in Boston. Eddie runs for Congress from a mixed-race district in Brooklyn. Jimmy's will left a fortune to Eddie, who doesn't want any of it. Is it a right vs left murder? A gay-bashing murder? A robbery gone wrong? The answers are close to home.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161238547
Publisher:	Rogue Phoenix Press
Publication date:	05/15/2019
Series:	Hugo Miller Mustery , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	865 KB

About the Author

Born in Houston, I spent most of my life in southern California, grew up in Palos Verdes and went to UCLA, studied Latin, Greek and literature. I wrote several nonfiction books when I was young, and gave it up when my children were born and I couldn't support them as a writer. The last of those was SANDCASTLES: The Uses of Enchantment, which was a Doubleday Dolphin book in 1981. Married for forty-five years, two grown children, two granddaughters. I started a small investor relations company in 1981 and ran it for thirty-six years. I did a reverse migration in 1998 and moved from California to New York.

I like writing. I write short stories (but seldom send them to anyone) the same way I do pushups, to keep in shape. Like my characters I love to cook; I love theater and classical music. My mind is like the bottom of a birdcage, where everything falls in no particular order.

I don't eat red meat and am a bit of a gym rat. I'm afraid of black ice on roads and sometimes I have a hard time looking down from heights. I like flying and I like going to new places. I "collect" cathedrals, and have been to more than two-thirds of the cathedrals in England. Of course, you can't count the cathedrals in France or Italy, but I've been to a lot there too. Something about them soars. Christmas carols make me cry, not sad, but tears nonetheless.

I like paintings and family heirlooms. Also, vodka and aggressive red wine.