Date with a Sheesha - Anthony Bidulka

Date with a Sheesha: 

A Russell Quant Mystery (2010)

ISBN: 978-1-897178-90-4

Neil Gupta travelled to the Middle East to buy carpets. Instead, in a dim corner of an exotic spice market, his lifeless body is found wrapped up in one. 

 

From the glitzy, flamboyant, mega-high rises of Dubai, to the frankincense fields of Oman and scorching sand dunes of Saudi Arabia, PI Russell Quant is on one heckuva magical carpet ride; one that skids to a deadly halt on the frozen surface of a Saskatchewan pond.

Never one to shy away from a challenge, Russell prepares to face the killing heat, choking sand storms, and pungent, dead-black nights of Arabia. Attempting to find out why Neil Gupta was killed, Quant embarks upon a perilous journey that pits him against a deceitful Bedouin sheikh, shifty souk merchants, a snooty museum curator, quirky antique carpet enthusiasts, and an underground club for “fabulous men”. 

As Russell’s spicy foreign adventure heats up, he learns valuable lessons about love, life, and learning to seize the moment…before it all disappears like smoke from a genie’s lamp. On the verge of solving his sizzling mystery, Russell finds himself making the biggest personal decision of his life, and discovering that sometimes, bitter endings pave the way for new beginnings.

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Anthony Bidulka’s mystery series tells the story of a half-Ukrainian, half-Irish, Saskatchewan, gay, ex-farm boy, ex-cop, world-travelling, wine-swilling, wise-cracking, Canadian prairie, private detective living a big life in a small city.

The Russell Quant series is a multi award nominee including for the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award and Saskatchewan Book Award. The second book in the series, Flight of Aquavit, was awarded the Lambda Literary Award for Best Men’s Mystery. 

Anthony Bidulka has enjoyed time well-spent and misspent in the worlds of academia, accounting, footwear, food services, and farming. In 1999, Anthony Bidulka, BA, BEd, BComm, CA, left a decade-long career as a chartered accountant to pursue writing.

Anthony has toured extensively throughout Canada and the US. A great believer in community involvement, he has sat on the boards of the International Association of Crime Writers, Crime Writers of Canada, Saskatchewan Writers Guild, Persephone Theatre, and is a co-founder of Camp fYrefly-Saskatchewan (a life skills camp for LGBT youth). Anthony has been the banquet MC for Canada’s premiere mystery conference, Bloody Words, and in June 2011, will be the MC for Crime Writers of Canada’s Arthur Ellis Awards.

The Russell Quant books: Amuse Bouche (2003), Flight of Aquavit (2004), Tapas on the Ramblas (2005), Stain of the Berry (2006), Sundowner Ubuntu (2007), Aloha, Candy Hearts (2009), Date With a Sheesha (2010). The eighth Russell Quant book, tentatively titled Dos Equis, is due to be released spring 2012.

Please visit www.anthonybidulka.com.