Blue Angel, White Shadow

Twenty-five-year-old lounge singer Laurice Saldiaga is found dead in her room at the Blue Angel Café and Bar in Binondo, Manila’s Chinatown. Inspector Cyrus Ledesma, a Chinese mestizo cop with a dark past is assigned to investigate the matter. The bar owner, Antonio Cobianco, is a known associate of Mayor Lagdameo Go-Lopez. Ledesma walks into a cauldron of intrigues, labyrinths, crumbling edifices, dogfights and suspects that include a jaded, whiskey-drinking female bar manager, a psychic journalist, a dyslexic piano player, a quick-trigger pit bull owner, an aging saxophone player, and Cyrus’ own uncle, Police Chief Ruben Jacinto.