Blue Angel, White

Shadow
by  Charlson Ong

Twenty-five year old lounge singer Laurice

Saldiaga is found dead in her room at the Blue
Angel Cafe 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.