The Bay 02 - Jingletown

EPISODE 2In the wake of a chaotic night, Cole Hoffer has a man in custody - the enigmatic Moses Dillard - but he's no closer to discovering the murderer of Chuck Hattaran. Cole returns to the streets in search of new information, soon stumbling upon a shady art auction, a Jamaican gangster, a mysterious Russian, and a new lover. From the Tenderloin to Jingletown and all the way up north to Napa Valley, Cole is about to discover just how vast the Bay's criminal underworld can be.THE BAY - THE SERIESA city boils. Another seethes. A third simmers. And the fourth is about to erupt. Like a stove top, the cities of the Bay Area cook in concert, each steeped in danger, corruption, and a criminal underworld that ties them together. A new homicide sits in the middle of it all-the untimely murder of a lawyer in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco.Filled with mystery as thick as the Bay's infamous fog, Inspector Cole Hoffer's investigation takes him deep into the most treacherous neighborhoods of San Francisco, Oakland and beyond, as he explores clue after clue, courtesy of a cast of pulpy characters operating in a black market just under our noses. In Hoffer's Bay Area, there's always money to be made, witnesses to be offed, and much bigger crimes to be concealed. After all, the Gold Rush never really ended, it just got deadlier.The AuthorTrent Kennedy Johnson is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles, California. Born and raised in the Midwest suburbs just outside Chicago, he has long harbored a fascination for mysterious underworlds like those presented in cities near and far. He is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago and the founder of a writing group called Incandescent, focused on assisting writers as they generate and hone new concepts born from unconventional sources of inspiration.