Roland Miranda is a poet, artist, photographer, and now author of a new novel, Jamoulks.

With over a decade spent writing murder mystery plays Miranda has developed a sense of timing and dialogue which make his off-beat characters seem alive.

When life is cheap enough even a bum might catch a break if he can stay alive until morning. Meet the gamblers, molls, slugs, touts, enforcers and bums of The City in the Great Depression. How they lived and loved while trying to stay alive and make a buck.

Grab your trench coat, fire a butt, and come see what lingers in the shadows. Jamoulks is the opening book of the Gonifs series.

Roland lives in an artist’s enclave four blocks from the Pacific, where his writing is frequently interrupted by two large dogs, a nuisance of cats, and a long-suffering wife.