Eight of Swords (David Skibbens)

I very much enjoyed this mystery with an unusual and likeable protagonist. For 30 years he's bee underground, having faked his death and living under various false identities; he doesn't spell out details, but if either the police or his former 50s revolutionary comerades knew he was alive he sous be imprison or dead. He is making a living as a Tarot reader on the street in Berkeley (the cards don't seem to care that he doesn't really believe on them) when a young woman stops for a reading and is promptly kidnapped. Feeling responsible for not warning her of the dangers shown in the cards and under suspicion in her disappearance, he begins calling in favors to solve the crime. In the process, he confronts his past and himself.