They Call It Tinseltown: The tinsel covers up an awful lot of blood.

By Thomas Hofstedt

Diego Mandel is an LA Homicide detective who identifies with the victims. A double homicide at the Playtime Motel looks at first like a classic 'sex-for-money' deal gone bad. When Diego and his rookie partner -- a street-smart ?migr? from Central Europe - start pulling on strings, they encounter a Hollywood producer obsessed with his Oscar, a dying matinee idol with a bitchy wife, a passionate and conflicted do-gooder, an urbane Russian mobster, and the full cross-section of Hollywood neuroses. It gets even more complicated when Diego finds himself sleeping with one of the principals while wrestling with Hollywood's darker aspects -Latino gangs, money laundering, narcotics and blackmail. Diego finds that justice is both elusive and expensive, priced according to the moral compromises called for.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692523464
• ISBN13: 9780692523469
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Career III Publishing
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"