Escape To Magpie Ridge

The police want to talk to Isidore Strong's friend Meryl Liu Quinn, a refugee from China's Cultural Revolution upheavals, about the murder of her adoptive father, one of San Francisco's beloved leading citizens, owner of a luxury department store, trustee of a medical center, funder of a repertoire theatre, and respecter of workers, but she has disappeared after telling Isidore innocent people must be protected before she can cooperate. Her dilemma stirs up Strong s deepest trauma, the murder of his own father, who had been a homicide detective. He is pulled away from his Cow Hollow home and the insulated academic life he has chosen, to face danger and right some wrongs. With a classic motif of private investigator dramas a beautiful woman walks into the office Isidore's involvement begins when she takes a revolver out of her purse and lays it on the desk. What follows is an amateur sleuth detective story and buddy adventure that captures Isidore s inner quest.