A prominent club owner is murdered in 1970 Las Vegas. Outcast Sheriff's Detective Heber Parkins is mysteriously assigned the case.
Las Vegas. 1970. Motor courts, motels, and open desert share the Strip with resorts like the Dunes, Sands, and Desert Inn. Frank and Dino rule the showrooms. The resorts take care of their own problems and the law picks up the pieces. If they can find them.
Then the respected co-owner of the most exclusive casino in town is discovered in a parking lot with two slugs in his head. Bad for business.
The case should go to the Sheriff's elite team of investigators, but outcast Detective Heber Parkins - the department's "trash man" - mysteriously gets the assignment, drawing him into a deadly struggle for control of the city's future.
Excerpt
Fanning himself with his straw Stetson Panama, he looked down at the body in the shallow flood ravine. The summer monsoons were late or it would have been in Lake Mead by now. At least this time it wasn't a woman.
PI novel set in Manhattan during the 1980s when art galleries and model agencies were the two most glamorous businesses in the world. Dangerously well written.
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