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by Joseph Jr. Covino (Author)
At Grace Cathedral, atop San Francisco's famed Nob Hill, Francesco Ferrari's ushering a wedding where the expected bride-to-be goes not only MIA but AWOL. A bride impersonator shows up to take her place, but suddenly drops dead on the cathedral floor from strychnine poisoning! Ferrari's recruited by the bride's high-society father to find his daughter, and by his good friend, Dave Toski, Inspector No. 73 of SFPD's homicide division, to help discover the poisoned impersonator's killer! Right off, an aging activist from Sonoma County implicates the Bohemians, an elite secret society-of which the bride's father is a member-in the mysterious murder. Complications occur quickly as Ferrari learns that the two inter-marrying families-one from a long line of modest undertakers, the other from a long line of wealthy bankers-share a bitter spite feud dating back to the 19th century! More complications arise as the respective progeny of the two families-a Millennial punk daughter and son-carry on their salacious carnal relationship. Further complications ensue once Ferrari becomes involved with the model agency director, an alluring Indonesian beauty, who first dispatched the bride impersonator. Intriguing dynamics at play, amongst these radically disparate characters, make this one of the most confounding cases Ferrari's ever confronted. From its shocking commencement at Grace Cathedral to its climactic conclusion at the extremely secretive Bohemian Grove-and all the posh spots in-between: the Huntington Hotel, the Top of the Mark, the Nob Hill Café, the Fairmont Hotel-Francesco Ferrari Scales Nob Hill is your intimate introduction to opulent places only fantasized about.
Francesco Ferrari, who debuted in 2016, celebrates roughly a decade of being a quintessentially San Francisco character, and remains ignored by the cliquish city establishment. In all that time, the close-minded San Francisco Chronicle could never deign to condescend even to give Ferrari a mere mention, much less a sincere review. Randal S. Brandt, representing the supremely pompous Bancroft Library, presumes to judgmentally censor perceived politically incorrect phraseology of Ferrari's book blurbs. These selfsame petty people pretend to champion acceptance, free speech and expression, inclusion; protest age-inappropriate book bans; and boycott authors whose opinions and viewpoints they imperiously deem bigoted. In this 5th entry to his popular and top-rated series, it's no wonder then that Ferrari's in a bad mood, and fed up with the supreme phoniness of his beloved but hyper-pretentious city. The good news is: the petty people, seething in their bitter, fanatical, frustrated, hypocritical, and self-righteous irrelevance, are far too impotent to censor the whole worldwide web! Francesco Ferrari not only lives, but unlike them, thrives!
