Family Skeleton

“Who says a private eye has to walk the mean streets of LA? Burkett has found an apt home for hardboiled p.i. Eddie Hummel in that rainy city of Seattle. An outstanding read.”
- H.L. Osterman, Short Changed

Seattle private eye Eddie Hummel gets called onto the case of a family with a missing twenty-year-old daughter. However, there’s more to the Filmore family than meets the eye. Here, in the hardboiled ’70s, Hummel puts his sleuthing skills into high gear and starts rattling a few … family skeletons.

William R. Burkett, Jr. is better known as a science fiction writer, but this foray into the mean streets of the world of Dashiell Hammett and Ross MacDonald and Raymond Chandler is formidable – tough, engaging, and as jarring as a nail scraped across a blackboard. Twin Killing was the initial book in his Rainy City Mystery series. And like his hard-as-nails sleuth, Burkett lives in the Pacific Northwest.