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RICHARD’S LATEST NOVEL
 
    Crossing Borders (2010)
    An Eddie DeSilva Mystery
 A page-turning murder mystery set in San Diego where Richard grew up.Sailing back to San Diego after six months in Baja, Eddie DeSilva is caught in a storm and saved from almost certain death by a stowaway who is wanted by the San Diego police for murdering his wife. With the aid of psychologist and Enneagram practitioner Pauline Graham, DeSilva tries to prove his rescuer’s innocence in a story that explores the plight of illegal immigrants drawn to live and work in America’s Finest City. (1st Place, Genre Fiction, 2011 Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards; 1st Place, 2009 San Diego Book Awards as an unpublished manuscript. 2nd Place, Reader Views, Best Mystery, 2011; Finalist, Best Mystery, 2010 San Diego Book Awards)
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Available as an eBook from Xlibris.
 
READ THE FIRST EDDIE DeSILVA MYSTERY 
 
 MURDER BY THE NUMBERS
The Righteous ONE
 
When Eddie DeSilva, San Diego’s first Portuguese-American chief of police, is forced into retirement following an officer-involved shooting, he pairs up with  psychologist Pauline Graham to prove the innocence of a woman charged with the mercy-killing of her dying father.  A hospice nurse enamored with euthanasia, the murder victim’s trophy wife and a psychiatrist collaborating on his next book on the Enneagram—a psychological typing system—are among the suspects in this first Eddie DeSilva mystery. Sign up on Richard’s email list (rhicks2@cox.net) to receive notification of the publication of the third book in this exciting new mystery series.
 
 
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