by P. C. DETTMANN
Ernest Zevon is a London musician and drug dealer. His life changes when a saxophonist befriends him in a Soho bar. They tour the country in a new crime caper from an original British author.
Masterfully crafted by prolific writer, P. C. Dettmann, ‘Ernest Zevon’ embroils readers in the dark and fascinating underworld of Soho, as an unlikely friendship sparks between two musicians, and they tour the country to do far more than innocently play music. Romantic yet chilling, the narrative could easily have inspired a song by the late Leonard Cohen – yet it is original enough to be a hallmark of Dettmann’s style.
“From the innocent sound of the saxophone to the hardcore world of drugs, this is an adventure that’s highly original and will stand as totally unique in the marketplace,” explains the author, a prolific writer who also crafts books for children under a pseudonym. “It’s chock-full of music, crime, and everything that makes the real-world characters who inspired Ernest so fascinating.”
Paul Dettmann writes nonfiction about crime, gangs and music. He sometimes writes novels.
PAUL DETTMANN wrote his first novel as Paul Charles, during his X-Files period in the mid 1990s. From Beyond Belief, also known as The Playground, describes Peter Flynn’s hunt for the evidence that might prove his wife really was taken by aliens. His only other Paul Charles novel, Kicking Tin, tells the story of an NTSB investigator who tries to solve the mystery of a plane crash that resembles TWA-800. More recently he has written British Gangs 1900 - 1950, a nonfiction history of gangs in the first half of the twentieth century. He also writes crime noir pot-boilers as Ernest McQueen.
by Ernest McQueen