Publisher's Synopsis
"Behind this basement door, hell is about to begin for some and has already ended for others." Vancouver June 1958. Canada's West Coast paradise is anything but peaceful. Peeping Toms, sex crimes, labour unrest, race riots, prostitution and crooked cops have the city on edge. And that's before the Second Narrow Bridge collapses, killing twenty-five men. Amidst this chaos, a husband and wife are brutally murdered in their westside home; their twin seven year-old girls escape. Detectives Michael Williams and Ed Stokes catch the case and over the course of three-sleepless weeks, they find a link to sex clubs, American gangsters and extortion and question some of Vancouver's elite-- but they can't find the people responsible for these unspeakable deaths. Vancouver September 2000. Detective Williams' twin granddaughters have just turned seven, his old partner Ed is dying, and the past is haunting his present. At the urging of an old friend, Williams asks a new friend for help. Troubled by his own memories of things not done, Ryan Simms agrees to try and push forward back far enough that two of Vancouver's most decorated detectives can find some peace. Awash in neon lights from the '50s and heroes for today, 15,000 Yesterdays, is a voyeuristic look at the past and a fun-house mirror to the present. This is the second novel from Kelowna author Michael Payne featuring ex-major league baseball player Ryan "Dirt" Simms and his 100-pound Malamute Nesha. A third novel, The Ice Man, will be available summer 2021.
