Description: Vietnam veteran Dominick Candiotti has been long estranged from his family. But in 1985, his oldest brother Richard--beloved by every Italian Catholic in Youngstown as "Father Candy"--dies, and Dominick returns home for the funeral. Dominick is greatly disturbed by Richard's death, which has been ruled a suicide. Dissatisfied with this answer, he sets out to find the truth.
Brief description: Les Roberts is a reader in Cultural and Media Studies at the University of Liverpool, UK and is Co-Director of the Centre for Culture and Everyday Life. The core focus of his work is situated within the interdisciplinary fields of spatial anthropology/spatial humanities, cultural memory and urban cultural studies. He is author/editor of a number of books including Film, Mobility and Urban Space (2012), Mapping Cultures (2012), Sites of Popular Music Heritage (2014), Locating the Moving Image (2014), and Deep Mapping (2016). His most recent monograph, Spatial Anthropology: Excursions in Liminal Space, was published in 2018.
Review Quotes: "Les Roberts' standalone mystery... is a volatile piece of bloody noir that is extremely fast paced and highly engaging....If you enjoy vigilante justice films and novels, then I highly recommend Les Roberts' The Strange Death of Father Candy....a good standalone mystery that will appeal to fans of noir." --Gumshoe