Ronald Tierney

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The Carly Paladino and Noah Lang Mysteries

Private investigator and fourth generation San Franciscan Carly Paladino escaped a high-rise, professional security firm to land amid a set of characters only San Francisco could produce. Heading her “new family” is laid-back, streetwise detective Noah Lang, who works with a bright, tough gender-shifting Vietnamese immigrant operative and an unpredictable, bitter old PI who has no work, but refuses to retire.

Pacific Heights, North Beach, Chinatown, Haight-Ashbury, the Castro and the Mission are some of San Francisco's famous neighborhoods and they come to life in the new Carly Paladino and Noah Lang mystery series. You'll be transported to lesser-known San Francisco as well, including cozy Noe Valley and the hilltop communities of Bernal Heights and Potrero Hill. You'll travel through tough Bayview/Hunter's Point, trendy Hayes Valley, upscale Fillmore, and you'll take in a new Vietnamese neighborhood blossoming at the edge of the Tenderloin. You'll visit the Russian and Chinese communities out on the Avenues, the gentrifying industrial SOMA neighborhood, and the hidden community of Dog Patch.

Nob Hill, Golden Gate Park and Fisherman's Wharf are great, but the real San Francisco, gateway to the Pacific, is a story of fantastically diverse people living in a mysterious, historic city of hidden stairways, back alleys, neighborhoods tucked away in out-of-the way places, and miles and miles of foggy coast line.