This series plunges readers into the dark underbelly of seemingly idyllic settings, following LAPD detectives as they unravel complex murder investigations. Each case presents a unique challenge, often involving high-profile victims and intricate plots that push the investigators to their limits. Expect thrilling mysteries with sharp dialogue, a relentless pace, and a keen exploration of the hidden darkness within popular culture.
Rambunctious Rabbit--Rambo to his fans--is an American icon and a theme park's biggest draw. When the actor inside the Rambo costume and two other theme park employees are murdered, LAPD detectives must catch the madman before he brings the family entertainment giant to its knees.
Barry Gerber is one of the most powerful and hated men in Hollywood. Turning up dead in a garbage can brings him under the eyes of Detectives Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs. Just two days later another despised actor bad-boy is found murdered. Wading through a list of suspects the detectives have to race to prevent another hot-shot getting the cut.
A cop's wife has been murdered. As LAPD detectives Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs investigate, a second cop's wife is killed. Both women were part of an ingenious real estate scheme run by bestselling murder mystery author Nora Bannister: she buys a house in L.A. dirt cheap, and while her partners turn it into a showplace, Nora murders someone there--in her next book. When the house goes on the market, there's a bidding frenzy. It seems a lot of people want to live in a house where a fictional character has died a violent death. Is someone stalking the house flippers, or is the murderer after cops' wives? Either way, Lomax and Biggs have to track down the killer before he (or she) murders the next logical target--Marilyn Biggs, Terry's wife.