The Bell in the Fog by AC Rosen

Thursday, July 4, 2024--San Antonio

The Bell in the Fog is the second book in a detective series by AC Rosen.  I read the first book a few weeks ago.  My most recent books have been less than I hoped in terms of entertainment, so I checked this one out and read it in one day.  It takes place in San Francisco during the early 1950s.  Andy is a former cop who is working as a private eye.  He is hired to find some sexually candid photos and their negatives that are being used to blackmail a former colleague and lover in the Navy during WWII.  What he finds is photos of more than this one person.  Then, after returning the photos to everyone, he is confronted by someone else whose photos he doesn't have who threatens his life if his photos are not returned just like those of the others.  It's a period of corrupt cops, bar owners paying the cops for protection, everyone trying to keep secrets, etc.  And Andy is there to solve all the questions and to fall in love again.  I give the book 3 1/2 stars out of 5.