South of Sunset by Tony Bulmer

I am very excited to be able to bring you my neo-noir crime thriller South of Sunset a book that incorporates all my favorite themes: twisted morality, psychological thrills, ambiguous intention and a crazy cast of characters to equal and excel any I have written before. This book will be available in e-book format initially for the great price of $3.99, but audio and print editions are currently underway. Set in West L. A. the book features Benny Ragazzo a retired Marine Corps hero and mob associate struggling good naturedly against past trauma, but when he runs into the psychologically challenged Mia outside his psychiatrist’s office things turn wrong and quick.

The course of true love never did run smooth, and Benny’s problems come flooding in from the very outset. Enter billionaire sports moguls Ronnie and Anya Oberman, a power couple whose big money marital problems are running out of control. Time to call in help from Big Joe Carpathian, the man in Vegas. Bad mistake. Mobster Carpathian has designs on the Oberman empire and he figures he knows just the man for the job…

Benny Ragazzo is reluctant to get involved, but what do you do when the big man in Vegas makes you an offer you can’t refuse? Benny is working on himself and trying hard not to kill anyone, but that’s not going so well. Even worse, the past is rearing up— there are the corpses in the desert weighing on his mind, and memories from the dark shores of Africa. The shrink in the hills is helping, but she has secrets of her own, the kind of secrets that could get a guy dead and quick.

I had a lot of fun writing this book. The switchback twists will keep you guessing to the very end. Even better, I got to run wild with the craziest noir themes and shake them inside a hula- hula cocktail shaker with characters influenced by one of the wildest most surreal stories of all time: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare. I just know my readers are going to have as much fun as I did digging through all the secret references.