Normally, I would be writing about background checks here. But for those who don’t know me, I have had for years a literary life outside of employment screening. And since my new novel, The Blood Orange, was just published, I figured i would post something about it here.
Minstrel’s Alley is the publishing group that published this novel. The Blood Orange is a romantic mystery thriller set in California and is the tradition of Raymond chandler and other Los Angeles Noir msytery writers. The novel is set in contemporary times but draws upon old Spanish California bandit legends. Some years ago a local Los Angeles police officer whose family had settled in California many generations before, told me about the bandits that used to live way up in the Hollywood Hills and swoop down on the Pueblo, some miles away. There was talk of buried gold and hidden treasure. I thought it would make for a great subject from which to draw a modern LA mystery thriller. So here we are.
Gordon Basichis, or if you prefer, me, is the author of several previous books, including the roman a clef, The Guys Who Spied for China, the non-fiction novel, Beautiful Bad Girl, the Vicki Morgan Story, and The Constant Travellers, a new age Western Fantasy novel
Here is the link to the Press Release announcing Minstrel’s Alley Publication of The Blood Orange.
