It is 1950 in Vancouver. Gamblers and brothel keepers bribe the city’s untrained underpaid cops to look the other way. Grisly unsolved murders are piling up. Are these murders the work of a serial killer? The city’s Chief Constable is too busy dealing with the problems presented by his pregnant 17-year-old girlfriend to worry about it. Enter Chief Detective Inspector Walter Jackson, an honest cop. Pursuing the killer takes Jackson through the city’s unlicensed bottle-clubs, strip-clubs and brothels. Add Jackson’s love affair and his encounter with an ancient Coast Salish mystic and it all adds up to another suspenseful page turner.

Now a full-time writer, Stanley Evans has been a soldier, a surveyor, and deep-sea fisherman. He once spent several months travelling up and down the Amazon and its tributaries. A former college instructor, he began his writing career in newspapers and magazines. He worked one season in Canada's Northwest Territories, as a crewman on the George Askew, one of Canada's last functioning paddlewheelers. Evans` hobbies are reading, carving wooden duck decoys, and conversation. He lives in Victoria.

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