A Shot to the Heart — Grant Patterson

FROM THE AUTHOR OF BOMBER'S MOON AND THE WILL BRYANT THRILLERSCOMES A STORY OF MURDER AND CORRUPTION IN VANCOUVER'S NEONERA...AUGUST, 1954:A veteran police detective reads the headlines implicating him in a scandal about to rock the department. He locks himself in an office, and a single shot rings out.Two months earlier, the bodies of two Chinese men are found on the railroad tracks, on the boundary between the respectable west and the sordid east sides of the city.Detective Sergeant Erasmus Eraser Jennings gets the case.Eraser knows he's got a bad rap. Opium fiend. Hired killer. Too close to a triad boss and his daughter. Maybe that's why he's got a case nobody really wants solved.Maybe that's why he'll go out of his way to solve it anyway.When a policeman's worst enemies are the men he answers to, what choice does he have but to make all the wrong kinds of friends?