Richard Risemberg

My Turn to Die Richard Risemberg

On a forgotten street corner under a blazing sun, a woman's life is taken, and Lenny Strasser's is destroyed. The only potential witness, a transient named Carlos, has vanished, and a man who resembles him is found murdered near a curb where Carlos often sits. Since local detectives seem less than concerned, it's up to Lenny to make someone pay. But who, and how?

With a knack for finding the hidden and a raw hunger for justice, Lenny begins a search that leads him through some of the less glamorous shadows of Los Angeles in the early 80s. A dark, foul tunnel under the Hollywood Freeway, a sagging public library, a cardboard village by a concrete riverbed. Along the way he is helped, and hindered, by a rich cast of ordinary people.

Part L. A. noir and part hero's journey, My Turn to Die is also an entirely human story of loss, revenge, and how to rebuild what is irreparably broken.