If you’re not doing anything next Wednesday evening, please come out and join us for the Halifax launch of The Haight at the Dalhousie University Faculty Club.

As many of you may know, Poplar Press of New Jersey recently published my first crime novel, which I plan to turn into a series of murder mysteries set in the 1960s. I’ve been meaning to hold a celebration to introduce it in Halifax, and now we’re getting around to it.

The launch will take place Nov. 21 at 7 pm at the Dalhousie Faculty Club, which is on Alumni Crescent, just off South Street. Mike Hamm from Bookmark will be on hand to sell some books.

The Haight is a crime novel set in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood in 1968 – a whodunnit with hippies. It tells the story of Lieut. Jimmy Spracklin’s investigation into the murder of John Blakely, an artist found dead in a Victorian house off Haight Street. Spracklin was drawn to the case because it would take him to Haight-Ashbury, where his 16-year-old step-daughter Marie had been hiding since she ran away the previous fall.

The response to the book has been fantastic – 15 reviews so far on Amazon and 14 of them are five-star.

The Haight would make a great Christmas present, or you can pick up a copy for yourself. If nothing else, just come out and join the fun. It will great to see some Entrevestor readers and give them a chance to see me in my other life.