Fil Lewitt

• Feb-2020
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Hover was a real and great American meditation teacher. His teacher was Master U Ba Khin of Burma. The Bear River retreat happened. Also Treadwell and his demons. If this were a movie, instead of a novel, it would be hyped on a splash screen as based...

• Feb-2018
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Ed Steadman is asked by bagman Antonio Strano AKA Tony Strange to find out secretly why some of his protection collections’ money is going missing before it reaches his boss, the Capo of the San Francisco branch of the Mafia. Tony Strange is in tro...

• Sep-2017
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QUINTET for Bone Rattle & Bird Wing Whistle presents five novellas of varying length about the five main characters that make up San Francisco’s Mercy Investigations agency, and some of the other characters who populate the seven previous novels of...

• May-2017
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This is a novel about building a house, and building a case. The house, or cabin compound, is on Steady Ed Steadman’s long-held beachfront property in Pacifica, just below San Francisco on the Pacific coast. The case is the drugging, abduction, and...

• Oct-2016
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Someone has the audacity to commit a murder in Morry Twych's porno theater, and Morry takes it as a personal affront, hiring Ed Steadman and Mercy Investigations to find out what happened. Meanwhile, Mercy Torcher and her partner Jack Nowan are retai...

• Feb-2016
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This is the fifth novel in the Mercy Investigations Series: While Mercy Torcher is back in Boston, undercover to help her father, the Judge (see “Convictions”), Ed Steadman, Jack Nowan, and Reggie Jackson are left in San Francisco to deal with a ...

• Oct-2015
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Mercy Torcher goes solo in this 4th of the Mercy Investigations Novels, leaving her partner, Jack Nowan, her mentor Steady Ed Steadman, and their apprentice Reggie Jackson, on their own to run the show in San Francisco, after her father and friend Su...

• Jan-2015
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In this third novel of the Mercy Investigations series, REVENGE, set in San Francisco, the founder of the original agency, Steady Ed Steadman, tells the story of a murderous maniac, Ort Baggett, who was released by mistake from prison and intends to ...

• Jun-2014
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A vicious crime in the gay Castro District of San Francisco, unsolved by the SFPD, results in the hiring of Mercy Investigations to find the perpetrator. At the same time, US Senator Ruth Fineline is trying to help her grand-niece get out of an abusi...

• Oct-2013
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KILLER PICTURE POSTCARDS (a Mercy Investigations Novel) is set in San Francisco from 1994 to 1998 and is divided into three equal parts of twenty chapters each: “Getting There is Half the Fun” shows Jack Nowan (mid-30s) and Mercy Torcher (early...

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• Aug-2008
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At St. Mello's College in Santa Fe, the egghead mainly-male faculty who teach the Great Books List curriculum are dying, one each month, in horrible accidents. The college administration and the local police are satisfied with that verdict, but new W...

• Aug-2008
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Molly Bender, new to the Santa Fe Police Department, has to join Special Agent Wink Hoodle of the FBI in a task force to investigate strange doings at Guru Ram's religious cult, the sky-blue-robed Jebudindu, in nearby Barsalona, New Mexico. With her ...

• Aug-2008
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San Francisco, 1967. Tough guy Morry Twych, with his brother Dicky and friend Moosy, has some years previously invented "porno" to replace the old burlesque. They run a successful "theater" downtown. Graduate student Will Rymer has been drafted by th...