Homage

British gumshoe Chris Shovelin narrates his California investigative adventures with a ""dear reader"" directness in Crime Writers' Association award-winner and Booker Prize nominee Julian Rathbone's sharply written and absorbing Homage. When Shovelin finds his PI friend Jefferson dead on the floor of his L.A. apartment, the Brit, financed by the glamorous China Heart, takes over Jefferson's mission to find China's brother and enters into a world of guns, blackmail and murder.