Riordan has until the runoff election, less than a week away, to find the answers. Lee suspects someone has been tampering with newly installed touch-screen voting machines. Leonora Lee, the notorious, near-mythic “Dragon Lady” of San Francisco's Chinatown, hires Riordan to look into the city's mayoral election after her candidate, Alan Chow, finishes in single digits. He has won multiple awards, participated in solo and small group shows, and he has published a monograph entitled STREET STORIES.How much does it cost to fix an election? That's the question uppermost in PI August Riordan's mind in his harrowing fourth adventure (after 2006's Candy from Strangers Images of his have been shown in galleries across the United States and Europe, including exhibitions jurored by acclaimed photographers and curators Amy Arbus, Elizabeth Avedon, Judy Dater, Henry Horenstein and Michael Kenna. His work has been collected for the California History Room at the California State Library, the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley and the San Francisco History Center at the San Francisco Public Library.Ĭoggins has published short fiction in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and the anthology Masters of Technique, as well as nonfiction in View Camera and Distributed Object Computing magazines. Three of his novels have been translated for foreign markets. THE IMMORTAL GAME was optioned for a film. RUNOFF and THE BIG WAKE-UP won the Next Generation Indie Book Award and the Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) respectively, both in the crime fiction category. His books have been nominated for the Shamus and the Barry crime fiction awards and have been selected for best of the year lists compiled by the San Francisco Chronicle, the Detroit Free Press and, among others. This story, “There’s No Such Thing as Private Eyes,” was later published in The New Black Mask, vol. Scott Momaday and Ron Hansen and wrote the first story featuring his series character August Riordan in a class taught by Hansen. While at Stanford, he studied literature and creative writing with Tobias Wolff, N.

He earned two degrees and a Phi Beta Kappa Key from Stanford University and has worked for a number of Silicon Valley computer and venture capital firms, including Netscape Communications and Hewlett Packard Company.

Born in the Four Corners region of New Mexico, Mark Coggins is an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation.

Runoff by Mark Coggins