It also introduces one of the most delightful characters to come along in some time: August Riordan, a jazz bass-playing PI who is cynical, irreverent, and a laugh a minute.” “Here’s a first novel that pays homage to Hammett, Chandler, and every wisecracking PI in the genre, and then some. “Mark Coggins writes tight prose with a clean, unadorned style he is a Hammett for the turn of the 21st century.” It’s a true find, a well-written and sophisticated addition to the heralded San Francisco private-detective story…a panoramic tour de force.” “Smart, stylish, sexy and amusingly insouciant. Nominated for a Shamus, Barry and Independent Publishers Award (IPPY) in the Mystery/Suspense/Thriller category.

Selected by mystery maven Otto Penzler as a “Penzler’s Pick” for.

Selected by the San Francisco Chronicle, the Detroit Free Press and January Magazine as one of the top ten mysteries of the year. Sifting through a San Francisco peopled with bruising, ex-NFL henchmen, transvestite techno geeks, and alluring, drug-addicted dominatrices, Riordan has got his work cut out for him.īut with a smart-ass attitude like Riordan’s, nothing is easy …Ī darkly comic sojourn through a town unrecognizable from the Tony Bennett song and the Rice-a-Roni ads, The Immortal Game is a Shamus, Barry, and Independent Publisher (IPPY) award nominee. When the world’s most innovative computer chess software is stolen, wisecracking, jazz bass-playing PI August Riordan is hired to find it.

The Immortal Game by Mark Coggins