Author Talk: Philip Baker

In his book, Hunger Hill, an exciting crime-thriller set in Portland, Maine, Detective Basil Keene must solve the murder of the unlikeable butcher of Hunger Hill. The cast of characters ranges from the sinister Russian, Silk Rhenko, a first-time hit woman who makes a rookie mistake, to the charming Eileen Mack, an underage bartender, to Oligarch Fyodor Umarov, the mastermind behind an underground scheme of money laundering and human trafficking.