THE KOAN KILLINGS

The Koan Killings features two of the seven stories from Gary Simoni's book Nansen's Cat. A Japanese father and an Irish mother gives 'Nick' a unique perspective on a world gone badly off-kilter. Killings and koans, mayhem and metaphysics, the DoubleNickel Detective stories serve up the usual mix of characters, clues, and conundrums. Called DoubleNickel as a boy for his thick glasses, and 'Nick' as a college man, he remains without a name in the stories. He is a brown paper sack, a rumpled suit, a mutt of mixed ancestry. His father is Japanese; his mother is Irish. He is sardonic with a penchant for wit and whiskey. He is a private cop who lines up with the hard-boiled boys. Might be more here than meets the eye.

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